Small perturbations of nonlocal biharmonic problems with variable exponent and competing nonlinearities (Q1650836)

The article deals with the analysis of combined effects of an absorption term and a small perturbation of the reaction term in a \(p(x)\)-biharmonic Kirchhoff problem with Navier boundary condition. To be more precise, in the first part the author studies the existence of a continuous spectrum consisting in an interval for the following nonlocal biharmonic problem with variable exponent \[ \begin{cases} M(t) \left(\Delta^2_{p(x)}u+a(x)|u|^{p(x)-2}u \right)= \lambda V_1(x) |u|^{q(x)-2}u, \quad &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u=\Delta u=0, & \text{on }\partial \Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Delta^2_{p(x)}=\Delta (|\Delta u|^{p(x)-2}\Delta u)\) is the \(p(x)\)-biharmonic operator and \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with smooth boundary. Furthermore, \(M(t)\) is a continuous function and \[ t:=\int_\Omega \frac{1}{p(x)} \left(|\Delta u|^{p(x)}+a(x)|u|^{p(x)}\right)dx, \] \(\lambda\) is a positive parameter, \(p, q\) are continuous functions on \(\overline{\Omega}\), \(a\in L^\infty(\Omega)\) is such that \(\text{essinf}_{x\in \Omega}a(x)>0\), and \(V_1\) is a weight function in a generalized Lebesgue space such that \(V_1>0\) in an open set \(\Omega_0\subset\subset\Omega\) with \(|\Omega_0|>0\). In the second part the authors discuss the following perturbed problem \[ \begin{cases} M(t) \left(\Delta^2_{p(x)}u+a(x)|u|^{p(x)-2}u \right)= \lambda \left(V_1(x) |u|^{q(x)-2}u-V_2|u|^{\alpha(x)-2}u\right), \quad &\text{in }\Omega,\\ u=\Delta u=0, & \text{on }\partial \Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\alpha\) is a continuous function on \(\overline{\Omega}\) and \(V_2\) is a nonnegative one in a generalized Lebesgue space. The proofs in this work combine variational methods with energy estimates.