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Existence of positive solutions for variable exponent elliptic systems

Samira Ala1*, Ghasem A Afrouzi2, Qihu Zhang3 and Asadollah Niknam4

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1 Department of Mathematics, Sciences and Research, Islamic Azad University (IAU) Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran

3 Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, Henan 450002, China

4 Department of Mathematics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

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Boundary Value Problems 2012, 2012:37 doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2012-37

Published: 3 April 2012

Abstract

We consider the system of differential equations

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MSC: 35J60; 35B30; 35B40.

Keywords:
positive solutions; p(x)-Laplacian problems; sub-supersolution