Existence and nonexistence results for m-Laplace equations involving critical Sobolev exponents (Q1122057)

The paper is concerned with the boundary value problem: \[ -\nabla \cdot (f| \nabla u|^{m-2}\nabla u)-b\cup^ p=\lambda hu^{m-1}\quad in\quad \Omega;\quad u>0\quad in\quad \Omega,\quad u=0\quad on\quad \partial \Omega \] where \(1<m<n\), \(\Omega \subset R^ n\) smooth, bounded, open and connected and p the critical Sobolev exponent \((p=mn/(n-m))\). The results proved regard the existence and non-existence of solutions \(u\in H_ 0^{1,m}(\Omega).\) Thus it is proved that there exists \(\lambda^*\) such that for \(\lambda^*<\lambda <\lambda_ 0\) there exist solutions and for \(\lambda >\lambda_ 0\) there are no solutions of the problem where \(\lambda_ 0\) is the first eigenvalue of: \[ -\nabla \{f| \nabla u|^{m-2} \nabla u)=\lambda hu^{m-1}\quad in\quad \Omega,\quad u=0\quad on\quad \partial \Omega \] under certain conditions on the coefficients and on the domain for \(n\geq m^ 2\) sharp existence and non- existence results are obtained for which a Pohozaev identity is used.