Entropy and renormalized solutions for nonlinear elliptic problem involving variable exponent and measure data (Q2256577)

The authors work in the framework of Sobolev spaces with variable exponents to study the following nonlinear problem with the Dirichlet boundary condition: \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} &-\text{div}\big(a(x,u,\nabla u) +\phi(u)\big) + g(x,u,\nabla u) = f(x) -\text{div}F(u) \quad \text{in } \Omega, \\ &u|_{\partial\Omega} =0, \end{aligned}\right. \] where \(f \in L^1(\Omega)\), \(F \in \big(L^{p'(x)}(\Omega)\big)^N\), \(g\) is such that \(g(x,u,\nabla u)u \geq 0\) and it satisfies a natural growth condition with respect to \(|\nabla u|\). Here, \(-\text{div}(a(x,u,\nabla u))\) is a Leray-Lions operator from \(W_0^{1,p(x)}(\Omega)\) to its dual. The existence of an entropy solution to this problem is obtained. Then, it is shown that an entropy solution is also a renormalized solution to this problem.