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Liouville type theorems, monotonicity results and a priori bounds for positive solutions of elliptic systems

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Figueiredo, D., Sirakov, B. Liouville type theorems, monotonicity results and a priori bounds for positive solutions of elliptic systems. Math. Ann. 333, 231–260 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-005-0639-1

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