A variational approach to a quasilinear elliptic problem involving the \(p\)-Laplacian and nonlinear boundary condition (Q923899)

Using the technique of \textit{K.J. Brown} and \textit{T. F. Wu} [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 337, No.~2, 1326--1336 (2008; Zbl 1132.35361)], we present a note on the paper [\textit{T. F. Wu}, A semilinear elliptic problem involving nonlinear boundary condition and sign-changing potential, Electron. J. Differential Equations 131, 1--15 (2006; Zbl 1128.35350)] by \textit{T.-Fang Wu}. Indeed, we extend the multiplicity results for a class of semilinear problems to the quasilinear elliptic problems of the form: \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta_pu+m(x)|u|^{p-2}u=\lambda\alpha(x)|u|^{q-2}u,\quad & x\in\Omega,\\ |\nabla u|^{p-2}\;\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=b(x)|u|^{r-2} u, & x\in\partial\Omega.\end{cases} \] Here \(\Delta_p\) denotes the \(p\)-Laplacian operator defined by \(\Delta_pz=\text{div}(|\nabla x|^{p-2}\nabla z)\), \(1<q<p<r<p^*\) \((p^*=\frac{pN}{N-p}\) if \(N>p\), \(p^*=\infty\) if \(N\leq p\)), \(\Omega\subset \mathbb R^N\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, \(\frac{\partial}{\partial n}\) is the outer normal derivative, \(\lambda\in\mathbb R\setminus\{0\}\), the weight \(m(x)\) is a bounded function with \(\|m\|_\infty>0\) and \(a(x)\), \(b(x)\) are continuous functions which change sign in \(\overline\Omega\).