Existence and multiplicity results for anisotropic stationary Schrödinger equations (Q2449568)

The authors analyze the existence and multiplicity of weak solutions of the anisotropic quasilinear elliptic equation \[ - \sum_{i=1}^{N} \partial_{x_i}(|\partial_{x_i}u|^{p_i(x)-2} \partial_{x_i}u) + b(x)|u|^P u=f(x,u), \quad x \in \Omega, \] with \(u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\), where \(\Omega\) is a smooth bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 3\), \(p_i: \overline \Omega \to (1,\infty)\) are continuous functions, and \(f:\Omega \times \mathbb R \to \mathbb R\) satisfies the Caratheodory conditions. Here \(P=\max\{p_i^+\}_{i=1}^N\) and \(p_i^+=\max \{p_i(x) \mid x \in \overline \Omega\}\). The authors show that under certain growth conditions on \(f\), the problem has a nontrivial weak solution. Moreover, if the function \(f\) is odd in the sense that \(f(x,-t)=-f(x,t)\) for all \(x\in \Omega\) and \(t \in \mathbb R\), there exist infinitely many solutions. The final part of the paper is concerned with combined effects of concave and convex nonlinearities. The functional-analytic framework relies on anisotropic Sobolev spaces.