Mountain pass type solutions for quasilinear elliptic equations

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2000
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We establish the existence of weak solutions in an Orlicz-Sobolev space to the Dirichlet problem
(D) {(-div (a(\del u(x)\)del u(x)))(u = 0), (= g(x, u),) (in Omega)(on partial derivative Omega,)
where Omega is a bounded domain in R-N, g is an element of C(<(Omega)over bar> x R, R), and the function phi(s) = sa(\s\) is an increasing homeomorphism from R onto R. Under appropriate conditions on phi, g, and the Orlicz-Sobolev conjugate Phi(*) of Phi(s) = integral(0)(s) phi(t) dt, (conditions which reduce to subcriticality and superlinearity conditions in the case the functions are given by powers), we obtain the existence of nontrivial solutions which are of mountain pass type.
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