On positive solutions for classes of \(p\)-Laplacian semipositone systems (Q1395998)

Introducing the \(p\)-Laplacian operator \(\Delta_p\) for \(p> 1\) by \[ \Delta_p(z):= \text{div}(|\nabla z|^{p-2}\nabla z), \] the authors study the boundary value problem: \(-\Delta_p u=\lambda f(v)\) in \(\Omega\), \(-\Delta_p v=\lambda g(u)\) in \(\Omega\), \(u= 0= v\) on \(\partial\Omega\), where \(\lambda> 0\) is a parameter and \(f\) and \(g\) are given functions in \(\Omega\). They find certain conditions imposed on \(f\) and \(g\), guaranteeing a positive solution \((u,v)\) of the above system, if the parameter \(\lambda\) is sufficiently large.