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The existence of a solution for a class of quasilinear integrodifferential equations of Volterra-Hammerstein type with nonlinear boundary conditions is established. Such equations occur in the study of the p-Laplace equation, generalized reaction-diffusion theory, non-Newtonian fluid theory, and in the study of turbulent flows of a gas in a porous medium. The results are obtained by using upper and lower solutions, and extend some previously known results.

By a sub-super solution argument, we study the existence of positive solutions for the system ⎧$-{\Delta }_{p}u=a₁\left(x\right)F₁(x,u,v)$ in Ω, ⎪$-{\Delta }_{q}v=a₂\left(x\right)F₂(x,u,v)$ in Ω, ⎨u,v > 0 in Ω, ⎩u = v = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$ with smooth boundary or $\Omega ={ℝ}^N$. A nonexistence result is obtained for radially symmetric solutions.

Our main purpose is to establish the existence of a positive solution of the system ⎧$-{∆}_{p\left(x\right)}u=F(x,u,v)$, x ∈ Ω, ⎨$-{∆}_{q\left(x\right)}v=H(x,u,v)$, x ∈ Ω, ⎩u = v = 0, x ∈ ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded domain with C² boundary, $F(x,u,v)={\lambda }^{p\left(x\right)}[g\left(x\right)a\left(u\right)+f\left(v\right)]$, $H(x,u,v)={\lambda }^{q(x})[g\left(x\right)b\left(v\right)+h\left(u\right)]$, λ > 0 is a parameter, p(x),q(x) are functions which satisfy some conditions, and $-{∆}_{p\left(x\right)}u=-{div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}\nabla u)$ is called the p(x)-Laplacian. We give existence results and consider the asymptotic behavior of solutions near the boundary. We do not assume any symmetry conditions on the system.

We study the existence of positive solutions to ⎧ ${div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)+q\left(x\right)u^{-\gamma }=0$ on Ω, ⎨ ⎩ u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is ${ℝ}^N$ or an unbounded domain, q(x) is locally Hölder continuous on Ω and p > 1, γ > -(p-1).

Our main purpose is to establish the existence of weak solutions of second order quasilinear elliptic systems ⎧ $-{\Delta }_{p}u+{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u=f_{1\lambda ₁}{\left(x\right)\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u+2\alpha /(\alpha +\beta )g_{\mu }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha -2}u{\left|v\right|}^{\beta }$, x ∈ Ω, ⎨ $-{\Delta }_{p}v+{\left|v\right|}^{p-2}v=f_{2\lambda ₂}{\left(x\right)\left|v\right|}^{q-2}v+2\beta /(\alpha +\beta )g_{\mu }{\left|u\right|}^{\alpha }{\left|v\right|}^{\beta -2}v$, x ∈ Ω, ⎩ u = v = 0, x∈ ∂Ω, where 1 < q < p < N and $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is an open bounded smooth domain. Here λ₁, λ₂, μ ≥ 0 and $f_{i{\lambda }_i}\left(x\right)={\lambda }_i{f}_{i+}\left(x\right)+f_{i-}\left(x\right)$ (i = 1,2) are sign-changing functions, where $f_{i\pm }\left(x\right)=max\pm f_i\left(x\right),0$, $g_{\mu }\left(x\right)=a\left(x\right)+\mu b\left(x\right)$, and ${\Delta }_{p}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)$ denotes the p-Laplace operator. We use variational methods.

In the recent years, many results have been established on positive solutions for boundary value problems of the form $-div\left(\right|\nabla u\left(x\right){|}^{p-2}\nabla u\left(x\right))=\lambda f\left(u\left(x\right)\right)$ in Ω, u(x)=0 on ∂Ω, where λ > 0, Ω is a bounded smooth domain and f(s) ≥ 0 for s ≥ 0. In this paper, a priori estimates of positive radial solutions are presented when N > p > 1, Ω is an N-ball or an annulus and f ∈ C¹(0,∞) ∪ C⁰([0,∞)) with f(0) < 0 (non-positone).