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Publications and source records attributed to J. V. Goncalves.
It is established existence, uniqueness and multiplicity of solutions for a quasilinear elliptic problem problems driven by $Φ$-Laplacian operator. Here we consider the reflexive and nonreflexive cases using an auxiliary problem. In order to prove our main results we employ variational methods, regularity results and truncation techniques.
It is established some existence and multiplicity of solution results for a quasilinear elliptic problem driven by $Φ$-Laplacian operator. One of these solutions is built as a ground state solution. In order to prove our main results we apply the Nehari method combined with the concentration compactness theorem in an Orlicz-Sobolev framework. One of the difficulties in dealing with this kind of operator is the lost of homogeneity properties.
It is established existence, multiplicity and asymptotic behavior of positive solutions for a quasilinear elliptic problem driven by the $Φ$-Laplacian operator. One of these solutions is obtained as ground state solution by applying the well known Nehari method. The semilinear term in the quasilinear equation is a concave-convex function which presents a critical behavior at infinity. The concentration compactness principle is used in order to recover the compactness required in variational methods.
In 2009 Loc and Schmitt established a result on sufficient conditions for multiplicity of solutions of a class of nonlinear eignvalue problems for the p-Laplace operator under Dirichlet boundary conditions, extending an earlier result of 1981 by Peter Hess for the Laplacian. Results on necessary conditions for existence were also established. In the present paper the authors extend the main results by Loc and Schmitt to the $Φ$-Laplacian. To overcome the difficulties with this much more general operator it was necessary to employ regularity results by Lieberman, a strong maximum principle by Pucci and Serrin and a general result on lower and upper solutions by Le.
We develop arguments on convexity and minimization of energy functionals on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces to investigate existence of solution to the equation $\displaystyle -\mbox{div} (ϕ(|\nabla u|) \nabla u) = f(x,u) + h \mbox{in} Ω$ under Dirichlet boundary conditions, where $Ω\subset {\bf R}^{N}$ is a bounded smooth domain, $ϕ: (0,\infty)\longrightarrow (0,\infty)$ is a suitable continuous function and $f: Ω\times {\bf R} \to {\bf R}$ satisfies the Carathéodory conditions, while $h$ is a measure.
We develop arguments on the critical point theory for locally Lipschitz functionals on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces, along with convexity and compactness techniques to investigate existence of solution of the multivalued equation $\displaystyle - Δ_Φ u \in \partial j(.,u) + λh \mbox{in} Ω$, where $Ω\subset {\bf R}^{N}$ is a bounded smooth domain, $Φ: {\r} \longrightarrow [0,\infty)$ is a suitable N-function, $Δ_Φ$ is the corresponding $Φ$-Laplacian, $λ> 0$ is a parameter, $h:Ω\rightarrow{\r}$ is integrable and $\partial j(., u)$ is the subdifferential of a function $j$ associated with critical growth.
In a recent paper D. D. Hai showed that the equation $ -Δ_{p} u = λf(u) \mbox{in} Ω$, under Dirichlet boundary condition, where $Ω\subset {\bf R^N}$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary $\partialΩ$, $Δ_{p}$ is the p-Laplacian, $f : (0,\infty) \rightarrow {\bf R} $ is a continuous function which may blow up to $\pm \infty$ at the origin, admits a solution if $λ> λ_0$ and has no solution if $0 < λ< λ_0$. In this paper we show that the solution set $\mathcal{S}$ of the equation above, which is not empty by Hai's results, actually admits a continuum of positive solutions.