Nonresonance close to the first eigenvalue of a quasilinear elliptic system of potential type (Q1915432)

The authors study the quasilinear elliptic system \[ \text{div}(|\nabla u_i|^{p_i-2} \nabla u_i)+{{\partial F}\over{\partial x_i}}(x,u)+ h_i(x)=0, \] where \(1\leq i\leq m\), \(u_i|_{\partial\Omega}=0\), \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\) is a bounded regular domain, \(1<p_i<\infty\). They prove the existence of a solution \(u\) if \[ \lim_{\max_{1\leq i\leq m}|s_i|\to\infty} \sup{{F(x,s)}\over{|s_1^{a_1}|\dots|s_m^{a_m}|}}< \lambda_1, \] where \(\alpha_i>0\), \(\sum^m_{i=1} {\alpha_i\over {p_i}}=1\), and \(\lambda_1\) is the first eigenvalue of an associated eigenvalue problem.