Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2002(2002), No. 49, pp. 1-13. Title: Existence of solutions for elliptic systems with critical Sobolev exponent Authors: Pablo Amster (Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Pablo De Napoli (Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Maria Cristina Mariani (Univ. de Buenos Aires, Argentina) Abstract: We establish conditions for existence and for nonexistence of nontrivial solutions to an elliptic system of partial differential equations. This system is of gradient type and has a nonlinearity with critical growth. Submitted January 2, 2002. Published June 2, 2002. Math Subject Classifications: 35J50 Key Words: Elliptic Systems; Critical Sobolev exponent; variational methods.