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In this paper we study the uniqueness of nontrivial positive solutions for the following second order nonlinear elliptic system:
We prove that for sufficiently small β > 0, the above system has a unique nontrivial positive solution.
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Ikoma, N. Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for a Nonlinear Elliptic System. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 16, 555 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-009-0017-x
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