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Quasilinearity below the 1st eigenvalue

Author(s): Victor L. Shapiro
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 1955-1962.
MSC (2000): Primary 35J60; Secondary 35J35
Posted: February 15, 2001
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Abstract:

This paper establishes the existence of two nontrivial weak solutions for a quasilinear Dirichlet problem below the first eigenvalue via the mountain pass theorem.


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Additional Information:

Victor L. Shapiro
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0135
Email: shapiro@math.ucr.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06124-X
PII: S 0002-9939(01)06124-X
Keywords: Quasilinear variational, first eigenvalue, mountain pass theorem, near $p$-homogeneous.
Received by editor(s): September 7, 1999
Posted: February 15, 2001
Communicated by: David S. Tartakoff
Copyright of article: Copyright 2001, American Mathematical Society


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