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This paper is concerned with a quasilinear elliptic system, which involves the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality and multiple critical exponents. The existence and multiplicity results of positive solutions are obtained by variational methods.
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Nyamoradi, N., Shekarbigi, M. Existence of positive solutions for a quasilinear elliptic system involving critical Sobolev-Hardy exponents and concave-convex nonlinearities. Arab. J. Math. 2, 365–379 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40065-013-0084-z
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