Existence of solutions for elliptic systems with Hölder continuous nonlinearities (Q5933772)

The following system has proved to be both of matematical interest and a good model for many phenomena in biology, ecology, combustion theory, etc.: NEWLINE\[NEWLINEL_1 u = f(x,u,v)\text{ in }\Omega,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINEL_2 u = g(x,u,v)\text{ in }\Omega,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINE u=v=0\text{ on }\Omega,NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\Omega\) is bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 1\), with a smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\), \(f,g:\overline{\Omega}\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}\rightarrow\mathbb{R}\) are two given functions and \(L_k\), \(k=1,2\) two second-order uniformaly elliptic operators which are to be specified. In the paper, the above system is studied when the nonlinearities are Hölder continuous functions without a Lipschitz condition. It is proved that under those assumptions there are solutions between lower and upper solutions. This results apply to a dynamical population problem with ``slow'' diffusion.