Existence of solutions for a semilinear elliptic system
ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Volume 19 (2013) no. 2, p. 574-586

This paper deals with the existence of solutions to the following system: $\left\{\begin{array}{c}-\Delta u+u=\frac{\alpha }{\alpha +\beta }{a\left(x\right)|v|}^{\beta }{|u|}^{\alpha -2}u\phantom{\rule{1em}{0ex}}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\text{in}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}{ℝ}^{N}\hfill \\ -\Delta v+v=\frac{\beta }{\alpha +\beta }{a\left(x\right)|u|}^{\alpha }{|v|}^{\beta -2}v\phantom{\rule{1em}{0ex}}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}\text{in}\phantom{\rule{4pt}{0ex}}{ℝ}^{N}.\hfill \end{array}\right\$ -Δu+u=αα+βa(x)|v|β|u|α-2u inRN-Δv+v=βα+βa(x)|u|α|v|β-2v inRN. With the help of the Nehari manifold and the linking theorem, we prove the existence of at least two nontrivial solutions. One of them is positive. Our main tools are the concentration-compactness principle and the Ekeland’s variational principle.

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1051/cocv/2012022
Classification:  35J45,  35J50,  35J60
Keywords: semilinear elliptic systems, Nehari manifold, concentration-compactness principle, variational methods
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Benrhouma, Mohamed. Existence of solutions for a semilinear elliptic system. ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, Volume 19 (2013) no. 2, pp. 574-586. doi : 10.1051/cocv/2012022. http://www.numdam.org/item/COCV_2013__19_2_574_0/

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