We present a novel approach to solving a specific type of quasilinear boundary value problem with $p$-Laplacian that can be considered an alternative to the classic approach based on the mountain pass theorem. We introduce a new way of proving the existence of nontrivial weak solutions. We show that the nontrivial solutions of the problem are related to critical points of a certain functional different from the energy functional, and some solutions correspond to its minimum. This idea is new even...

We study a nonlinear elliptic system with resonance part and nonlinear boundary conditions on an unbounded domain. Our approach is variational and is based on the well known Landesman-Laser type conditions.

We consider the quasilinear equation ${\Delta }_{p}u+K\left(\right|x\left|\right)u^q=0$, and present the proof of the local existence of positive radial solutions near $0$ under suitable conditions on $K$. Moreover, we provide a priori estimates of positive radial solutions near $\infty$ when $r^{-\ell }K\left(r\right)$ for $\ell \ge -p$ is bounded near $\infty$.

We shall prove a weak comparison principle for quasilinear elliptic operators $-\mathrm{div}\left(a\right(x,\nabla u\left)\right)$ that includes the negative $p$-Laplace operator, where $a:\Omega \times {ℝ}^N\to {ℝ}^N$ satisfies certain conditions frequently seen in the research of quasilinear elliptic operators. In our result, it is characteristic that functions which are compared belong to different spaces.

Let $p>1$, $q>p$, $\lambda >0$ and $s\in ]1,p[$. We study, for $s\to p^{-}$, the behavior of positive solutions of the problem $-{\Delta }_{p}u=\lambda u^{s-1}+u^{q-1}$ in $\Omega$, $u_{\mid \partial \Omega }=0$. In particular, we give a positive answer to an open question formulated in a recent paper of the first author.

We deal with a bifurcation result for the Dirichlet problem ⎧$-{\Delta }_{p}u=\mu /{\left|x\right|}^p{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u+\lambda f(x,u)$ a.e. in Ω, ⎨ ⎩$u_{|\partial \Omega }=0$. Starting from a weak lower semicontinuity result by E. Montefusco, which allows us to apply a general variational principle by B. Ricceri, we prove that, for μ close to zero, there exists a positive number $\lambda {*}_{\mu }$ such that for every $\lambda \in ]0,\lambda {*}_{\mu }[$ the above problem admits a nonzero weak solution $u_{\lambda }$ in $W{₀}^{1,p}\left(\Omega \right)$ satisfying $li{m}_{\lambda \to 0⁺}\left|\right|u_{\lambda }\left|\right|=0$.

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of nonnegative boundary blow-up solutions to the cooperative system ${\Delta }_{p}u=g(u-\alpha v),{\Delta }_{p}v=f(v-\beta u)$ in a smooth bounded domain of ${ℝ}^N$, where ${\Delta }_p$ is the p-Laplacian operator defined by ${\Delta }_{p}u={div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p-2}\nabla u)$ with p > 1, f and g are nondecreasing, nonnegative C¹ functions, and α and β are two positive parameters. The asymptotic behavior of solutions near the boundary is obtained and we get a uniqueness result for p = 2.

A 3D-2D dimension reduction for −Δ1 is obtained. A power law approximation from −Δp as p → 1 in terms of Γ-convergence, duality and asymptotics for least gradient functions has also been provided.

We study a class of anisotropic nonlinear elliptic equations with variable exponent p⃗(·) growth. We obtain the existence of entropy solutions by using the truncation technique and some a priori estimates.

We survey recent results concerning estimates of the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet $p$-Laplacian and the Navier $p$-biharmonic operator on a ball of radius $R$ in ${ℝ}^N$ and its asymptotics for $p$ approaching $1$ and $\infty$. Let $p$ tend to $\infty$. There is a critical radius $R_C$ of the ball such that the principal eigenvalue goes to $\infty$ for $0<R\le R_C$ and to $0$ for $R>R_C$. The critical radius is $R_C=1$ for any $N\in \mathbb{N}$ for the $p$-Laplacian and $R_C=\sqrt{2N}$ in the case of the $p$-biharmonic operator. When $p$ approaches $1$, the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet...

We consider the existence and nonexistence of solutions for the following singular quasi-linear elliptic problem with concave and convex nonlinearities: ⎧ $-{div\left(\right|x|}^{-ap}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p-2}{\nabla u)+h\left(x\right)|u|}^{p-2}u=g\left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{r-2}u$, x ∈ Ω, ⎨ ⎩ ${\left|x\right|}^{-ap}{\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p-2}\partial u/\partial \nu =\lambda f\left(x\right){\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u$, x ∈ ∂Ω, where Ω is an exterior domain in ${ℝ}^N$, that is, $\Omega ={ℝ}^N\setminus D$, where D is a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^N$ with smooth boundary ∂D(=∂Ω), and 0 ∈ Ω. Here λ > 0, 0 ≤ a < (N-p)/p, 1 < p< N, ∂/∂ν is the outward normal derivative on ∂Ω. By the variational method, we prove the existence of multiple solutions. By the test function method,...

In the present paper, we prove existence results of entropy solutions to a class of nonlinear degenerate parabolic $p(·)$-Laplacian problem with Dirichlet-type boundary conditions and $L^1$ data. The main tool used here is the Rothe method combined with the theory of variable exponent Sobolev spaces.