An Orlicz-space approach to superlinear elliptic systems

In this paper we study superlinear elliptic systems in Hamiltonian form. Using an Orlicz-space setting, we extend the notion of critical growth to superlinear nonlinearities which do not have a polynomial growth. Existence of nontrivial solutions is proved for superlinear nonlinearities which are subcritical in this generalized sense. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.