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MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR $p(x)$-LAPLACIAN EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEARITY SUBLINEAR AT ZERO

Part of: Elliptic equations and systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2024

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SHIBO LIU*
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Department of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne 32901, FL, USA
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Abstract

We consider the Dirichlet problem for $p(x)$-Laplacian equations of the form

$$ \begin{align*} -\Delta_{p(x)}u+b(x)\vert u\vert ^{p(x)-2}u=f(x,u),\quad u\in W_{0}^{1,p(x)}(\Omega). \end{align*} $$

The odd nonlinearity $f(x,u)$ is $p(x)$-sublinear at $u=0$ but the related limit need not be uniform for $x\in \Omega $. Except being subcritical, no additional assumption is imposed on $f(x,u)$ for $|u|$ large. By applying Clark’s theorem and a truncation method, we obtain a sequence of solutions with negative energy and approaching the zero function $u=0$.

Keywords

p(x)-LaplacianClark’s theoremtruncation(PS)c condition

MSC classification

Primary: 35J60: Nonlinear elliptic equations

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , October 2024 , pp. 346 - 354
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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