Our aim in this paper is mainly to prove some existence results for solutions of generalized variational-like inequalities with (η,h)-pseudo-monotone type III operators defined on non-compact sets in topological vector spaces.

We consider the eigenvalue problem$$\begin{array}{c}-\mathrm{div}\left(a\right(\left|\nabla u\right|\left)\nabla u\right)=\lambda g(x,u)\text{in}\Omega \hfill \\ u=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,\hfill \end{array}$$in the case where the principal operator has rapid growth. By using a variational approach, we show that under certain conditions, almost all $\lambda \>0$ are eigenvalues.

We consider the eigenvalue problem $$\begin{array}{c}{\displaystyle -\mathrm{div}\left(a\right(\left|\nabla u\right|\left)\nabla u\right)=\lambda g(x,u)\text{in}\Omega u=0\text{on}\partial \Omega ,}\hfill \end{array}$$ in the case where the principal operator has rapid growth. By using a variational approach, we show that under certain conditions, almost all λ > 0 are eigenvalues.

We consider minimization problems of the form ${\min }_{u\in \varphi +W_0^{1,1}\left(\Omega \right)}{\int }_{\Omega }[f\left(Du\left(x\right)\right)-u\left(x\right)]\mathrm{d}x$ where $\Omega \subseteq {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded convex open set, and the Borel function $f:{ℝ}^N\to [0,+\infty ]$ is assumed to be neither convex nor coercive. Under suitable assumptions involving the geometry of $\Omega$ and the zero level set of $f$, we prove that the viscosity solution of a related Hamilton–Jacobi equation provides a minimizer for the integral functional.

We consider minimization problems of the form ${\min }_{u\in \varphi +W_0^{1,1}\left(\Omega \right)}{\int }_{\Omega }[f\left(Du\left(x\right)\right)-u\left(x\right)]\mathrm{d}x$ where $\Omega \subseteq {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded convex open set, and the Borel function $f:{ℝ}^N\to [0,+\infty ]$ is assumed to be neither convex nor coercive. Under suitable assumptions involving the geometry of Ω and the zero level set of f, we prove that the viscosity solution of a related Hamilton–Jacobi equation provides a minimizer for the integral functional.