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On a functional satisfying a weak Palais-Smale condition

• In this paper we study a quasilinear elliptic problem whose functional satisfies a weak version of the well known Palais-Smale condition. An existence result is proved under general assumptions on the nonlinearities.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35j62; Secondary: 46E30, 46E35.

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