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February  2016, 36(2): 683-699. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.683

## Existence of solutions for a class of p-Laplacian type equation with critical growth and potential vanishing at infinity

 1 Department of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA, United States 3 Department of Mathematics, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, 430079

Received  July 2014 Revised  February 2015 Published  August 2015

In this paper, we study the existence of positive solution for the following p-Laplacain type equations with critical nonlinearity \begin{equation*} \left\{ \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.25} \begin{array}{ll} -\Delta_p u + V （x)|u|^{p-2}u = K(x)f(u)+P(x)|u|^{p^*-2}u, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\\ u \in \mathcal{D}^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^N), \end{array} \right. \end{equation*} where $\Delta_p u = div(|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u),\ 1 < p < N,\ p^* =\frac {Np}{N-p}$, $V(x)$, $K(x)$ are positive continuous functions which vanish at infinity, $f$ is a function with a subcritical growth, and $P(x)$ is a bounded, nonnegative continuous function. By working in the weighted Sobolev spaces, and using variational method, we prove that the given problem has at least one positive solution.
Citation: Yinbin Deng, Yi Li, Wei Shuai. Existence of solutions for a class of p-Laplacian type equation with critical growth and potential vanishing at infinity. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2016, 36 (2) : 683-699. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2016.36.683
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