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November 2013, 12(6): 2577-2600. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.2577

Four positive solutions of a quasilinear elliptic equation in $ R^N$

Fang-Fang Liao ^1, and Chun-Lei Tang ^1,

1.	School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Received July 2012 Revised October 2012 Published May 2013

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This paper deals with the existence of multiple positive solutions of a quasilinear elliptic equation \begin{eqnarray} -\Delta_p u+u^{p-1} = a(x)u^{q-1}+\lambda h(x) u^{r-1}, \text{in} R^N; \\ u\geq 0, \text{ a.e. }x \in R^N;\\ u \in W^{1,p}(R^N), \end{eqnarray} where $1 < p \leq 2$, $N>p$ and $1 < r < p$ $< q < p^* ( = \frac{pN}{N-p})$. A Nehari manifold is defined by a $C^1-$functional $I$ and is decomposed into two parts. Our work is to find four positive solutions of Eq. (1) when parameter $\lambda$ is sufficiently small.

Keywords: positive solutions., Nehari manifold, $p-$Laplacian, Palais-Smale decomposition lemma.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J20; Secondary: 35J62; 35J9.

Citation: Fang-Fang Liao, Chun-Lei Tang. Four positive solutions of a quasilinear elliptic equation in $ R^N$. Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (6) : 2577-2600. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.2577

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[14]	T.-F. Wu, Multiplicity of positive solution of $p$-Laplacian problems with sign-changing weight functions, Int. J. Math. Anal. (Ruse), 1 (2007), 557-563.
[15]	T.-F. Wu, Multiple positive solutions for a class of concave-convex elliptic problems in $R^N$ involving sign-changing weight, J. Funct. Anal., 258 (2010), 99-131. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2009.08.005.

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