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Existence and multiplicity of weak solutions for a class of degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations

Boundary Value Problems20062006:41295

https://doi.org/10.1155/BVP/2006/41295

©  Mihăilescu 2006

Received: 11 January 2005

Accepted: 17 July 2005

Published: 7 February 2006

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to study the existence and the multiplicity of non-trivial weak solutions for some degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations on the whole space . The solutions will be obtained in a subspace of the Sobolev space . The proofs rely essentially on the Mountain Pass theorem and on Ekeland's Variational principle.

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Authors’ Affiliations

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Department of Mathematics, University of Craiova

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