# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2016, 15(2): 445-455. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.445

## Positive solution for the Kirchhoff-type equations involving general subcritical growth

 1 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China, China 2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715

Received  March 2015 Revised  November 2015 Published  January 2016

In this paper, the existence of a positive solution for the Kirchhoff-type equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$ is proved by using cut-off and monotonicity tricks, which unify and sharply improve the results of Li et al. [Existence of a positive solution to Kirchhoff type problems without compactness conditions, J. Differential Equations 253 (2012) 2285--2294]. Our result cover the case where the nonlinearity satisfies asymptotically linear and superlinear at infinity.
Citation: Jiu Liu, Jia-Feng Liao, Chun-Lei Tang. Positive solution for the Kirchhoff-type equations involving general subcritical growth. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2016, 15 (2) : 445-455. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2016.15.445
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