TY - JOUR ID - Boccardo2026 LB - Boccardo2026 AU - Boccardo, Lucio AU - Tello, J. Ignacio AU - Tello, Lourdes TI - An elliptic system involving p-Laplacian and a chemotactic term ST - An elliptic system involving p-Laplacian and a chemotactic term JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2026 VL - 46 IS - 4 SP - 491 EP - 511 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.OpMath.202607051 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.OpMath.202607051 AB - We study the nonlinear elliptic system: \[\begin{cases} u \in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega): -\operatorname{div} (a(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u) + u = -\operatorname{div} (a(x) u|\nabla \psi|^{p-2}\nabla \psi) + f(x), \\ \psi \in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega): -\operatorname{div} (a(x)|\nabla \psi |^{p-2}\nabla \psi) = u^{\theta} \end{cases}\] in a bounded, open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^N\) for \(N \gt 2\) and \(2 \lt p \lt N\), where \(f\) satisfies: \[0 \leq f, \quad f\in L^{(p^*){'}}(\Omega), \quad p^*= \frac{Np}{N-p},\] \(a \in L^{\infty}(\Omega) \) is a given function such that there exist \(\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{R}\) satisfying \[0\lt\alpha \leq a(x) \leq \beta, \quad x\in \Omega.\] We prove the existence of weak solutions in \([W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)]^2\) under the assumption \[0\lt \theta\lt 1- \frac{2}{p^*}.\] KW - nonlinear elliptic systems KW - weak solutions KW - \(p\)-Laplacian KW - chemotaxis term SN - 1232-9274 ER -