Signed solution for a class of quasilinear elliptic problem with critical growth (Q1866590)

This paper is devoted to the existence of signed solutions for a class of elliptic problems \[ Lu=\lambda h(x)|x|^\delta(u_+)^q- |x|^\gamma(u_-)^p \quad\text{in }\Omega, \qquad u_\pm\neq 0, \quad u\in E,\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is either a whole space or a bounded smooth domain, \(\lambda>0\), \(\alpha\), \(\delta\) and \(\gamma\) are real numbers, \(N>m-\alpha\), \(m^*= \frac{(\gamma+N)m}{(\alpha+N-m)}\), \(0<q<m-1<p\leq m^*-1\), \(u_\pm= \max\{\pm u,0\}\), \(h:h\to\mathbb R\) is a positive continuous function, \(L\) is the following operator \[ Lu:= \sum_{j=1}^N \frac{\partial}{\partial x_j} \bigg(|x|^\alpha|\nabla u|^{m-2} \frac{\partial u}{\partial x_j}\bigg) \tag{2} \] and by \(E\) is denoted one of the spaces \(D_0^{1,m}(\Omega)\) (if \(\alpha=\gamma=\delta=0\)), \(D^{1,2}(\mathbb R^N)\) (if \(\alpha=\gamma=\delta=0\) and \(m=2\)). Using variational method (under some naturla assumptions of the data of (1)) the authors prove existence at least one solution, that changes sign.