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In this paper, we study the existence of subharmonic solutions for ordinary p-Laplacian systems under a new growth condition. An existence theorem is obtained by using the generalized mountain pass theorem, which generalizes and improves some recent results in the literature.
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Li, C., Agarwal, R.P. & Ou, ZQ. Subharmonic solutions for a class of ordinary p-Laplacian systems∗. Lith Math J 58, 157–166 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10986-018-9393-4
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