%0 Journal Article %T Nonlinear elliptic systems %A DEFIGUEIREDO %A DJAIRO G. %J Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias %D 2000 %I Academia Brasileira de Ci¨ºncias %R 10.1590/S0001-37652000000400002 %X in this paper we treat the question of the existence of solutions of boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear elliptic equations of the form - du = f (x, u, v,£¿u,£¿v), - dv = g(x, u, v, £¿u, £¿v), in w, we discuss several classes of such systems using both variational and topological methods. the notion of criticality takes into consideration the coupling, which plays important roles in both a priori estimates for the solutions and palais-smale conditions for the associated functional in the variational case. %K elliptic equations %K variational methods %K palais-smale conditions %K leray-schauder degree %K a priori bounds. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0001-37652000000400002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en