# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2015, 2015(special): 276-286. doi: 10.3934/proc.2015.0276

## Existence of nontrivial solutions for equations of $p(x)$-Laplace type without Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz condition

 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, South Korea 2 Department of Mathematics Education, Sangmyung University, Seoul 110--743

Received  September 2014 Revised  August 2015 Published  November 2015

We study the following elliptic equations with variable exponents \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\text{div}(\varphi(x,\nabla u))+{|u|}^{p(x)-2}u= f(x,u) \quad &\text{in } \Omega \\ \varphi(x,\nabla u) \frac{\partial u}{\partial n}= g(x,u) & \text{on }\partial\Omega. \end{cases} \tag{P} \end{equation*} Under suitable conditions on $\phi$, $f$, and $g$, by employing the mountain pass theorem, the problem (P) has at least one nontrivial weak solution without assuming the Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz type condition.
Citation: Eun Bee Choi, Yun-Ho Kim. Existence of nontrivial solutions for equations of $p(x)$-Laplace type without Ambrosetti and Rabinowitz condition. Conference Publications, 2015, 2015 (special) : 276-286. doi: 10.3934/proc.2015.0276
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