Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Department of Basic Sciences, Payame Noor University of Karaj, Karaj, Iran.
Abstract
In this paper, we study the multiplicity of positive solutions for the Laplacian systems with sign-changing weight functions. Using the decomposition of the Nehari manifold, we prove that an elliptic system has at least two positive solutions.
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