Sign-changing solutions of critical growth nonlinear elliptic systems (Q2490783)

The author studies the existence of sign-changing solutions of the following class of nonlinear elliptic systems with critical growth (1) \[ -\Delta u=\frac{2\alpha}{\alpha+\beta}| u|^{\alpha-2}| v|^\beta u+\lambda u\qquad x\in\Omega \] \[ -\Delta v=\frac{2\beta}{\alpha+\beta}| u|^{\beta-2}| v|^\alpha u+\delta v\qquad x\in\Omega \] \[ u=0,\, v=0,\qquad x\in\partial\Omega \] where \(\lambda>0\),\(\delta>0\) are parameters and \(\alpha>1\), \(\beta>1\) satisfying \(\alpha + \beta=2^*\), \(2^*=2N/(N-2)\) is the critical Sobolev exponent. The following theorem is proved: Suppose \(N\geq 7\), \(\lambda\in (0,\lambda_1)\), \(\delta\in(0, \delta_1)\), then there exist at least four pairs of nontrivial solutions of (1) such that both \(u\) and \(v\) change sign in \(\Omega\).