Existence of solutions for semilinear elliptic equations with indefinite linear part (Q1184661)

The equations of the type \((-\Delta+V-\lambda)u=W(x)| u|^{p-2} u\), \((-\Delta+V-\lambda)u=f(u)\), where \(V\in L(\mathbb{R}^ N)\), \(\lambda\not\in\sigma(-\Delta+V)\) are considered. It is supposed that \(W(x)\in L^ \infty(\mathbb{R}^ n)\), \(W(x)\to0\) as \(| x|\to+\infty\), \(f(u)\) is an odd strictly increasing continuous function, which has superlinear but subcritical bounds. Introducing energy functionals and using dual variational methods some existence results are proved. An interesting point is the using of variational analysis of functionals on the Orlicz space \(L_ G\).