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In this paper, we study a class of resonant cooperative elliptic systems with sublinear or superlinear terms and obtain infinitely many nontrivial solutions by two variant fountain theorems developed by Zou.
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This research supported by the Specialized Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Chen, G., Ma, S. Infinitely many solutions for resonant cooperative elliptic systems with sublinear or superlinear terms. Calc. Var. 49, 271–286 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-012-0581-5
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