# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

August  2012, 5(4): 857-864. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.857

## Noncoercive elliptic equations with subcritical growth

 1 Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, 014700 Bucharest, Romania, Department of Mathematics, University of Craiova, 200585 Craiova, Romania

Received  January 2011 Revised  February 2011 Published  November 2011

We study a class of nonlinear elliptic equations with subcritical growth and Dirichlet boundary condition. Our purpose in the present paper is threefold: (i) to establish the effect of a small perturbation in a nonlinear coercive problem; (ii) to study a Dirichlet elliptic problem with lack of coercivity; and (iii) to consider the case of a monotone nonlinear term with subcritical growth. This last feature enables us to use a dual variational method introduced by Clarke and Ekeland in the framework of Hamiltonian systems associated with a convex Hamiltonian and applied by Brezis to the qualitative analysis of large classes of nonlinear partial differential equations. Connections with the mountain pass theorem are also made in the present paper.
Citation: Vicenţiu D. Rădulescu. Noncoercive elliptic equations with subcritical growth. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2012, 5 (4) : 857-864. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2012.5.857
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