Ground states of elliptic problems involving non homogeneous operators

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Abstract: We investigate the existence of ground states for functionals with nonhomogenous principal part. Roughly speaking, we show that the Nehari manifold method requires no homogeinity on the principal part of a functional. This result is motivated by some elliptic problems involving nonhomogeneous operators. As an application, we prove the existence of a ground state and infinitely many solutions for three classes of boundary value problems.


The article deals with the ground states of a \(C^{1}\)-functional \(\Phi(u):X\to {\mathbb R}\), i.e. solutions \(u\) to the problem \(\Phi'(u)=0\), \(\Phi(u)=\min\{\Phi(v):\;v\;\text{is a critical point of }\Phi\} \). Here \(X\) is a reflexive Banach space. The homogeneity of the main part of the functional \(\Phi\) is not required. First, under some conditions on \(\Phi\) the authors provide an abstract theorem about the existence of a ground state. It is also proven that in the case of an even \(\Phi\) satisfying the Palais-Smale condition on a manifold \(N=\{u\in X\setminus \{0\}: \Phi'(u)u=0\}\), the functional \(\Phi\) has infinitely many pairs of critical points. The results are applied to the study of three elliptic problems NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \begin{aligned} -\text{div\,}(a(|\nabla u|^{p})|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u))=f(u),\;-M(\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|^{2})\Delta u= f(u),\\ -\sum_{i=1}^{n}\partial_{x_{i}}(|\partial_{x_{i}}u|^{p_{i}-2}\partial_{x_{i}}u)=f(u),\;x\in \Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^{n},\;u|_{\partial \Omega}=0. \end{aligned}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The domain \(\Omega\) here is bounded. It is proven that under certain growth conditions on \(f\) and other functions and parameters occurring in these equations the Dirichlet problem for these equations is solvable and sometimes these problems admit infinitely many solutions.











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