Nontrivial solutions for a class of gradient-type quasilinear elliptic systems

Abstract

The aim of this paper is investigating the existence of weak bounded solutions of the gradient-type quasilinear elliptic system $$(P)\qquad \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} - {\rm div} ( a_i(x, u_i, \nabla u_i) ) + A_{i, t} (x, u_i, \nabla u_i) = G_i(x, \mathbf{u}) &\hbox{ in $Ω$}\\ \quad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad \mbox{ for }\; i\in\{1,\dots,m\},\\ \mathbf{u} = 0 &\hbox{ on $\partialΩ$,} \end{array} \right.$$ with $m\ge 2$ and $\mathbf{u}=(u_1,\dots ,u_m)$, where $\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^N$ is an open bounded domain and some functions $A_i:\Omega \times \mathbb{R}\times {\mathbb{R}}^N\to \mathbb{R}$, $i\in \{1,\dots ,m\}$, and $G:\Omega \times {\mathbb{R}}^m\to \mathbb{R}$ exist such that $a_i(x,t,\xi )={\nabla }_{\xi }{A}_i(x,t,\xi )$, $A_{i,t}(x,t,\xi )=\frac{\partial A_i}{\partial t}(x,t,\xi )$ and $G_i(x,\mathbf{u})=\frac{\partial G}{\partial u_i}(x,\mathbf{u})$. We prove that, under suitable hypotheses, the functional $\mathcal{J}$ related to problem $(P)$ is ${\mathcal{C}}^1$ on a "good" Banach space $X$ and satisfies the weak Cerami-Palais-Smale condition. Then, generalized versions of the Mountain Pass Theorems allow us to prove the existence of at least one critical point and, if $\mathcal{J}$ is even, of infinitely many ones, too.

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