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On the existence of multiple positive solutions to some superlinear systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2012

M. Chhetri
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 27402, USA (maya@uncg.edu)
S. Raynor
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7388, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA (raynorsg@wfu.edu; sbr@wfu.edu)
S. Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7388, Winston Salem, NC 27109, USA (raynorsg@wfu.edu; sbr@wfu.edu)

Abstract

We use the method of upper and lower solutions combined with degree-theoretic techniques to prove the existence of multiple positive solutions to some superlinear elliptic systems of the form

on a smooth, bounded domain Ω⊂ℝn with Dirichlet boundary conditions, under suitable conditions on g1 and g2. Our techniques apply generally to subcritical, superlinear problems with a certain concave–convex shape to their nonlinearity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2012

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