No label defined (Q4701017)

Let \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n\) be a smoothly bounded domain, \(u=(u_1,u_2\dots , u_M)\:\allowmathbreak \Omega \to \mathbb R^M\), \(f\:\Omega \times \mathbb R^M\times \mathbb R^{Mn}\to \mathbb R^M\), \(F(u)=f\bigl (\cdot ,u(\cdot),\bigtriangledown u(\cdot)\bigr)\) and \(Au=(-\bigtriangleup _Du_1, - \bigtriangleup _Du_2,\dots ,-\bigtriangleup _Du_M)\), where \(-\bigtriangleup _D\) is the Laplace operator with homogenuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The author studies the unique solvability of the problem \(Au=F(u)\). His basic assumptions are the following: 1. There exist symmetric matrices \(B^{\pm }\in \mathbb R^{M\times M}\) with eigenvalues \(\mu ^{\pm }_1 \leq \dots \leq \mu ^{\pm }_M\) such that \(B^-\leq D_uf\leq B^+\) and \(\bigl [\mu ^-_i,\mu ^+_i\bigr ]\cap \sigma (-\bigtriangleup _D)=\emptyset \) for \(i=1,2,\dots ,M\). 2. The function \(f\) is Lipschitz continuous in the gradient variable with a sufficiently small Lipschitz constant. The proof is based on the Banach fixed point theorem.