Multiple solutions for a Navier boundary value problem involving the $p$--biharmonic operator

Pasquale Candito; Giovanni Molica Bisci

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.741

Article Contents

2012, Volume 5, Issue 4: 741-751. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.741

This issue Previous Article Fourth-order hemivariational inequalities Next Article Multiple solutions for a Neumann-type differential inclusion problem involving the $p(\cdot)$-Laplacian

Multiple solutions for a Navier boundary value problem involving the $p$--biharmonic operator

Pasquale Candito^1, and
Giovanni Molica Bisci^2,

1.
DIMET - Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università di Reggio Calabria, Località Feo di Vito, 89100 Reggio Calabria
2.
Dipartimento P.A.U., Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Salita Melissari - Feo di Vito, 89100 Reggio Calabria

Received: January 31, 2011

Revised: March 31, 2011

Published: July 2012

Abstract Related Papers Cited by

Abstract

The existence of multiple weak solutions for a class of elliptic Navier boundary problems involving the $p$--biharmonic operator is investigated. Our approach is chiefly based on critical point theory.

Keywords:

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J40, 35J60.

Citation:

Related Papers

Cited by

References

[1]	G. Bonanno and B. Di Bella, A boundary value problem for fourth-order elastic beam equations, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 343 (2008), 1166-1176.doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.01.049.
[2]	G. Bonanno and B. Di Bella, A fourth-order boundary value problem for a Sturm-Liouville type equation, Appl. Math. Comput., 217 (2010), 3635-3640.doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.10.019.
[3]	G. Bonanno and B. Di Bella, Infinitely many solutions for a fourth-order elastic beam equation, NoDEA Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl., 18 (2011), 357-368.doi: 10.1007/s00030-011-0099-0.
[4]	G. Bonanno and P. Candito, Non-differentiable functionals and applications to elliptic problems with discontinuous nonlinearities, J. Differential Equations, 244 (2008), 3031-3059.doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2008.02.025.
[5]	G. Bonanno and S. A. Marano, On the structure of the critical set of non-differentiable functions with a weak compactness condition, Appl. Anal., 89 (2010), 1-10.doi: 10.1080/00036810903397438.
[6]	H. M. Guo and D. Geng, Infinitely many solutions for the Dirichlet problem involving the $p$-biharmonic-like equation, J. South China Normal Univ. Natur. Sci. Ed., 2009, 18-21, 28.
[7]	M. R. Grossinho, L. Sanchez and S. A. Tersian, On the solvability of a boundary value problem for a fourth-order ordinary differential equation, Appl. Math. Lett., 18 (2005), 439-444.
[8]	G. Han and Z. Xu, Multiple solutions of some nonlinear fourth-order beam equations, Nonlinear Anal., 68 (2008), 3646-3656.doi: 10.1016/j.na.2007.04.007.
[9]	C. Li and C.-L. Tang, Three solutions for a Navier boundary value problem involving the $p$-biharmonic, Nonlinear Anal., 72 (2010), 1339-1347.doi: 10.1016/j.na.2009.08.011.
[10]	X.-L. Liu and W.-T. Li, Existence and multiplicity of solutions for fourth-order boundary value problems with parameters, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 327 (2007), 362-375.doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2006.04.021.
[11]	A. M. Micheletti and A. Pistoia, Multiplicity results for a fourth-order semilinear elliptic problem, Nonlinear Anal., 31 (1998), 895-908.doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00446-X.
[12]	B. Ricceri, A general variational principle and some of its applications. Fixed point theory with applications in nonlinear analysis, J. Comput. Appl. Math., 133 (2000), 401-410.doi: 10.1016/S0377-0427(99)00269-1.
[13]	G. Talenti, Elliptic equations and rearrangements, Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4), 3 (1976), 697-718.
[14]	Y. Wang and Y. Shen, Infinitely many sign-changing solutions for a class of biharmonic equation without symmetry, Nonlinear Anal., 71 (2009), 967-977.doi: 10.1016/j.na.2008.11.052.
[15]	W. Wang and P. Zhao, Nonuniformly nonlinear elliptic equations of $p$-biharmonic type, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 348 (2008), 730-738.doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2008.07.068.
[16]	Z. Yang, D. Geng and H. Yan, Existence of nontrivial solutions in $p$-biharmonic problems with critical growth, (Chinese) Chinese Ann. Math. Ser. A, 27 (2006), 129-142.