Existence of strong and nontrivial solutions to strongly coupled elliptic systems (Q524249)

The author studies the existence of strong solutions and other nontrivial solutions to a nonlinear strongly coupled and nonregular but uniformly elliptic system. In the last few decades, this system has been studied in many papers under the main assumption that its solutions are bounded. In this paper, the authors aim is to establish the existence of a strong solution when \( L^\infty\) boundedness is not available. Since the system is not variational and comparison principles are generally unavailable, fixed point index theories are more appropriate to study the existence of solutions. The uniform estimates for Hölder norms and higher norms of the solutions come from a crucial and technical proposition which shows that one needs only a uniform control of the \(W^{1,2}(\Omega)\) and \(\mathrm{VMO}(\Omega)\) norms of the (unbounded) strong solutions to the systems. Using this deep technical approach, the author proves the existence of nontrivial and non-constant solutions.