A NECESSARY AND A SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE POSITIVE RADIAL SOLUTIONS TO HESSIAN EQUATIONS AND SYSTEMS WITH WEIGHTS

In this article, we consider the existence of positive radial solutions for Hessian equations and systems with weights and we give a necessary condition as well as a sufficient condition for a positive radial solution to be large. The method of proving theorems is essentially based on a successive approximation technique. Our results complete and improve a work published recently by Zhang and Zhou (existence of entire positive k-convex radial solutions to Hessian equations and systems with weights. Applied Mathematics Letters, Volume 50, December 2015, Pages 48-55).