Anisotropic elliptic problems with natural growth terms (Q634819)

The author considers a non uniformly elliptic partial differential equation driven by the anisotropic operator \[ \partial_i (|\partial_i u|^{p_i-2} \partial_i u) \] with~\(p_i>1\) and the harmonic mean of~\(p_i\) is less than the dimension of the space. This problem is not variational in nature. Under some structural assumption on the nonlinearity, the author proves the existence of a distributional solution. Roughly speaking, the idea of the proof is first to find a solution of an approximated truncated problem via the Leray--Lions Theorem and then to pass to the limit thanks to suitable a priori estimates.