Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a quasilinear system with locally superlinear condition

Abstract We investigate the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for a nonlinear Kirchhoff type quasilinear elliptic system on the whole space R N {{\mathbb{R}}}^{N} . We assume that the nonlinear term satisfies the locally super- ( m 1 , m 2 ) \left({m}_{1},{m}_{2}) condition, that is, lim ∣ ( u , v ) ∣ → + ∞ F ( x , u , v ) ∣ u ∣ m 1 + ∣ v ∣ m 2 = + ∞ {\mathrm{lim}}_{| \left(u,v)| \to +\infty }\frac{F\left(x,u,v)}{| u{| }^{{m}_{1}}+| v{| }^{{m}_{2}}}=+\infty for a.e. x ∈ G x\in G , where G G is a domain in R N {{\mathbb{R}}}^{N} , which is weaker than the well-known Ambrosseti-Rabinowitz condition and the naturally global restriction, lim ∣ ( u , v ) ∣ → + ∞ F ( x , u , v ) ∣ u ∣ m 1 + ∣ v ∣ m 2 = + ∞ {\mathrm{lim}}_{| \left(u,v)| \to +\infty }\frac{F\left(x,u,v)}{| u{| }^{{m}_{1}}+| v{| }^{{m}_{2}}}=+\infty for a.e. x ∈ R N x\in {{\mathbb{R}}}^{N} . We obtain that the system has at least one weak solution by using the classical mountain pass theorem. To a certain extent, our theorems extend the results of Tang et al. [Nontrivial solutions for Schrodinger equation with local super-quadratic conditions, J. Dynam. Differ. Equ. 31 (2019), no. 1, 369–383]. Moreover, under the aforementioned naturally global restriction, we obtain that the system has infinitely many weak solutions of high energy by using the symmetric mountain pass theorem, which is different from those results of Wang et al. [Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic systems in Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. 10 (2017), no. 7, 3792–3814] even if we consider the system on the bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary condition.