Minimax principles for critical-point theory in applications to quasilinear boundary-value problems.
We consider a quasilinear elliptic eigenvalue problem with a discontinuous right hand side. To be able to have an existence theory, we pass to a multivalued problem (elliptic inclusion). Using a variational approach based on the critical point theory for locally Lipschitz functions, we show that we have at least three nontrivial solutions when from the left, being the principal eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian with the Dirichlet boundary conditions.
Two nontrivial solutions are obtained for nonhomogeneous semilinear Schrödinger equations.
We discuss the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of second order quasilinear equations. To obtain our results we will use the Ekeland variational principle and the Mountain Pass Theorem.