On multiple solutions of quasilinear equations involving the critical Sobolev exponent (Q1283002)

The author studies the nonlinear eigenvalue problem \[ -\Delta_pu= -\text{div}(|\nabla u|^{p- 2}\nabla u)= \alpha k(x)| u|^{q- 2}u+ \beta h(x)| u|^{p^*- 2}\tag{\(*\)} \] in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). Here \(1<q<p<n\), \(p^*= np/(n- p)\) is the critical Sobolev exponent, \(\alpha\), \(\beta\) are positive real parameters, \(k\in L^{p^*/(p^*- q)}\) and \(h\) is bounded and continuous. He looks for nontrivial solutions in \({\mathcal D}^{1,p}\) -- the completion of \(C^\infty_0(\mathbb{R}^n)\) with respect to the norm \(\| u\|:=\|\nabla u\|_{L^p}\). He assumes that \(k>0\) on an open subset of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and imposes a smallness condition on one of the parameters \(\alpha\), \(\beta\), which depends on the respective value of the other parameter. Then he shows that \((*)\) has infinitely many solutions. In the case of symmetric functions \(h\) and \(k\) the assumptions can be somehow relaxed.