Open Access Research Article

Existence and Nonexistence Results for a Class of Quasilinear Elliptic Systems

Said El Manouni1* and Kanishka Perera2

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Al-Imam University, P.O. Box 90950, Riyadh 11623, Saudi Arabia

2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:085621 doi:10.1155/2007/85621


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Received:18 June 2007
Accepted:20 August 2007
Published:17 December 2007

© 2007 El Manouni and Perera

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Using variational methods, we prove the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for a class of -Laplacian systems with a parameter.

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