THE EXISTENCE, NONEXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS OF GLOBAL POSITIVE COEXISTENCE OF A NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC BIOLOGICAL INTERACTING MODEL

The purpose of this paper is to give a sufficient condition for the existence, nonexistence and uniqueness of coexistence of positive solutions to a rather general type of elliptic competition system of the Dirichlet problem on the bounded domain ${\Omega}$ in $R^n$. The techniques used in this paper are upper-lower solutions, maximum principles and spectrum estimates. The arguments also rely on some detailed properties for the solution of logistic equations. This result yields an algebraically computable criterion for the positive coexistence of competing species of animals in many biological models.