This paper is concerned with the following
class of elliptic equations
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where
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class="mathmlsrc">class="formulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0362546X16000195&_mathId=si6.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0362546X16000195&_rdoc=1&_issn=0362546X&md5=1a995e35d4177340e7b62181fe138e88" title="Click to view the MathML source">κ(x)class="mathContainer hidden">class="mathCode"> are asymptotically periodic functions,
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class="mathmlsrc">class="formulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0362546X16000195&_mathId=si8.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0362546X16000195&_rdoc=1&_issn=0362546X&md5=c77161ae1f3030807020db8d2a58e9b9" title="Click to view the MathML source">gclass="mathContainer hidden">class="mathCode"> are continuous functions with subcritical growth. This type of system arises, in particular, in models in Bose–Einstein condensates theory. We prove the existence of positive solution for this weakly coupled system with
class="mathmlsrc">class="formulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0362546X16000195&_mathId=si9.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0362546X16000195&_rdoc=1&_issn=0362546X&md5=0a0cd0471397a20534e8f878175505e4" title="Click to view the MathML source">β>0class="mathContainer hidden">class="mathCode"> sufficiently large. Furthermore, we obtain some sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of positive solutions.