We consider a quasilinear elliptic system involving the critical Hardy–Sobolev exponent and the Sobolev exponent. We use variational methods and analytic techniques to establish the existence of positive solutions of the system.
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Published in Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 64, No. 6, pp. 797–810, June, 2012.
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Nyamoradi, N. On a p-Laplacian system with critical Hardy–Sobolev exponents and critical Sobolev exponents. Ukr Math J 64, 912–929 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-012-0687-0
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