Existence results for the \(p\)-Laplacian equation with resonance at the first two eigenvalues (Q446213)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded open connected subset of \({\mathbb{R}}^{n}\) with a smooth boundary. Let \(f\) be a continuous function from \(\overline{\Omega}\times {\mathbb{R}}\) to \({\mathbb{R}}\). Assume that \(f(x,t)/(1+|t|^{q-1})\) is bounded in \((x,t)\in \Omega\times{\mathbb{R}}\) for some \(q\in [1,np/(n-p)[\) if \(p<n\), and for some \(q\in [1,+\infty[\) if \(n\leq p\). Assume that there exist continuous functions \(a\) and \(b\) in \(\Omega\) and \(M>0\) such that \(a(x)\leq f(x,t)/(|t|^{p-2}t )\leq b(x)\) for all \((x,t)\in \Omega\times{\mathbb{R}}\) such that \(|t|\geq M\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors show that under suitable conditions involving the first and second Dirichlet eigenvalue of the problems \(-\Delta_{p} u-a(x)|u|^{p-2}u=\lambda |u|^{p-2}u\) and \(-\Delta_{p} u-b(x)|u|^{p-2}u=\lambda |u|^{p-2}u\) for the \(p\)-Laplacian operator \(\Delta_{p}\), the boundary value problem NEWLINE\[NEWLINE -\Delta_{p} u(x)=f(x,u(x))\qquad\forall x\in \Omega\,, \qquad u(x)=0\qquad\forall x\in\partial\Omega\,, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE has at least a solution.