Multiple positive solutions for a quasilinear elliptic system involving concave-convex nonlinearities and sign-changing weight functions (Q417234)

Summary: Let \(\Omega\), with \(0 \in \Omega\), be an-open bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^N(N \geq 3)\) and \(p^\ast = (pN/(N - p))\). We consider the following quasilinear elliptic system of two equations in \(W_0^{1,p}(\Omega) \times W_0^{1,p}(\Omega)\): \[ \begin{aligned} -\Delta_pu = \lambda f(x)|u|^{q-2}u + (\alpha/(\alpha + \beta))h(x)|u|^{\alpha -2} u|v|^\beta, \\-\Delta_pv = \mu g(x)|v|^{q-2}v + (\beta/(\alpha + \beta))h(x)|u|^\alpha|v|^{\beta -2}v,\end{aligned} \] where \(\lambda\), \(\mu > 0\). \(\Delta_p\) denotes the \(p\)-Laplacian operator, \(1 \leq q < p < N\), \(\alpha, \beta > 1\) satisfy \(p < \alpha + \beta \leq p^\ast\), and \(f, g, h\) are continuous functions on \(\overline{\Omega}\) which are somewhere positive but which may change sign on \(\Omega\). We establish the existence and multiplicity results of positive solutions by variational methods.