Small perturbations of Robin problems driven by the \(p\)-Laplacian plus a positive potential (Q2240539)

Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^N$ ($N>2$) be a bounded domain with a $C^2$-boundary $\partial \Omega$. The authors study a parametric Robin problem of the form \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta_p u+V(x) u=a(x) |u|^{q-1}u+ \lambda g(x,u)+f(x) \mbox{ in } \Omega,\\ |\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u \cdot \nu + \beta(x)|u|^{p-2}u=0 \text{ on }\partial \Omega, \quad\lambda \in \mathbb{R}, \quad p \geq 2, \quad 0<q<p-1, \end{cases}\tag{\(P_\lambda\)}\] where $\nu(x)$ denotes the outer unit normal of $\Omega$ at $x \in \partial \Omega$, and $\Delta_p u= \operatorname{div}(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)$ for all $u \in W^{1,p}(\Omega)$ is the classical $p$-Laplace operator. Additionally, $a,V,f \in L^\infty( \Omega)$, $\beta \in L^\infty(\partial \Omega)$ and $g:\overline{\Omega} \times \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ satisfy precise assumptions. Thus, the authors develop a variational approach to study the solutions of $(P_\lambda)$. They prove the existence of a positive value $\lambda_0$ such that $(P_\lambda)$ admits at least one nontrivial weak solution if the parameter $\lambda$ satisfies the bound $|\lambda|<\lambda_0$ (this means equivalently that a suitable perturbation of the second reaction term is sufficiently small).