Existence of Positive Solutions for a Class of Variable Exponent Elliptic Systems

Abstract

We consider the system of differential equations $$\begin{cases} -\Delta_{p(x)}u=\lambda^{p(x)}f(u,v)&\text{in $\Omega$,}\\ -\Delta_{q(x)}v=\mu^{q(x)}g(u,v)&\text{in $\Omega$,}\\ u=v=0&\text{on $\partial\Omega$,}\end{cases}$$ where $\Omega \subset\mathsf{R}^{N}$ is a bounded domain with $C^{2}$ boundary $\partial \Omega,1<p(x),q(x)\in C^{1}(\bar{\Omega})$ are functions. $\Delta_{p(x)}u=\mathop{\rm div}\nolimits(|\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\nabla u)$ is called $p(x)$-Laplacian. We discuss the existence of a positive solution via sub-super solutions.