A class of elliptic system in non reflexive Orlicz-Sobolev spaces

Abstract

This paper aims to show that there exists a weak solution to the following quasilinear system driven by the M-Laplacian

$$\begin{aligned} {\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} (-\Delta _{m_1})u=F_u(x,u,v)& in\quad \Omega , \\ (-\Delta _{m_2})v=F_v(x,u,v)& in\quad \Omega ,\\ u=v=0& in\quad \partial \Omega , \end{array}\right. } \end{aligned}$$

(0.1)

where \(\Omega \) is a bounded open subset in \({\mathbb {R}}^N\) and \((-\Delta _{m})\) is the M-Laplacian operator. Here we consider the non-reflexive case taking into account the Orlicz and Orlicz-Sobolev Space. The non-reflexive case occurs when the N-function \({\overline{M}}\) does not verify the \(\Delta _2\)-condition. We consider an approximated quasilinear elliptic problem driven by the \(M_\epsilon \)-Laplacian and using the Mountain Pass Theorem to obtain the existence of a nontrivial and nonnegative solution for the above system in reflexive case. By tending \(\epsilon \rightarrow 0\) we get the solution in the non-reflexive case.