Homoclinic solutions for a class of nonlinear fourth order \(p\)-Laplacian differential equations (Q2274843)

In this paper, the authors deal with a class of fourth-order differential equation involving \(p\)-Laplacian \[ |u''(x)|^{p-2}u''(x))''+\omega (|u'(x)|^{p-2}u'(x))'+\lambda V(x) |u(x)|^{p-2} u(x)=f(x,u(x) \] where \(\omega\) is a constant, \(\lambda\) is a parameter and \(f\in C (\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\). with the aid of critical point theory and variational methods, they prove that under suitable growth conditions, the above equation possesses at least one nontrivial homoclinic solution, i.e., a nontrivial solution satisfying \(u(x)\longrightarrow 0\) as \(x\longrightarrow \mp\infty\).