We are concerned with the study of existence and nonexistence of weak solutions towhere N, k, m ≥ 1 are positive integers, p, q > 0 and u i ∈ L 1 loc (R N ) for 0 ≤ i ≤ k − 1. We assume that K is a radial positive and continuous function which decreases in a neighbourhood of infinity. In the above problem, K * |u| p denotes the standard convolution operation between K(|x|) and |u| p . We obtain necessary conditions on N, m, k, p and q such that the above problem has solutions. Our analysis emphasizes the role played by the sign of ∂ k−1 u ∂t k−1 .