On the critical polynomial of functionals related to \(p\)-area (for \(1 < p < \infty\)) and \(p\)-Laplace \((1 < p\leq2)\) type operators (Q2264059)

The authors consider the following quasilinear elliptic problem \[ \begin{cases} -\mathrm{div}[(\kappa^2+|\nabla u|^2)^{\frac{p-2}{2}} \nabla u]+g(x, u)=0 &\text{in}\,\, \Omega,\\ u=0 &\text{on}\,\, \partial \Omega,\end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega \) is a bounded open subset of \(\mathbb R^N, N\geq 1,\) with smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega \) and \(p>1, \kappa \geq 0\) are real numbers. \(g: \Omega \times \mathbb R \rightarrow \mathbb R\) is such that \(g(., s)\) is measurable for every \(s\in \mathbb R\) and \(g(x, .)\) is of class \(C^1\) for a.e. \(x\in \Omega\) and satisfying subcritical growth conditions. The authors describe the behavior of the functional associated to problem (1) near a critical point including the cases (\(1 < p < \infty\) and \(\kappa >0\)) and (\(1 < p \leq 2\) and \(\kappa =0\)) and provide estimates of the corresponding critical polynomial.