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July  2020, 13(7): 1935-1945. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020151

## Positive solutions for some generalized $p$–Laplacian type problems

 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy

* Corresponding author: Anna Maria Candela

Dedicated to Patrizia Pucci on the occasion of her 65th birthday

Received  July 2018 Revised  December 2018 Published  November 2019

Fund Project: Partially supported by Fondi di Ricerca di Ateneo 2015/16 and Research Funds INdAM – GNAMPA Project 2018 "Problemi ellittici semilineari: alcune idee variazionali"

In this paper, we prove the existence of nontrivial weak bounded solutions of the nonlinear elliptic problem
 $\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} - {\rm div} (a(x,u,\nabla u)) + A_t(x,u,\nabla u) = f(x,u) &\hbox{in$\Omega$,}\\ u \ge 0 &\hbox{in$\Omega$,}\\ u\ = \ 0 & \hbox{on$\partial\Omega$,} \end{array} \right.$
where
 $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^N$
is an open bounded domain,
 $N\ge 3$
, and
 $A(x, t, \xi)$
,
 $f(x, t)$
are given functions, with
 $A_t = \frac{\partial A}{\partial t}$
,
 $a = \nabla_\xi A$
.
To this aim, we use variational arguments which are adapted to our setting and exploit a weak version of the Cerami–Palais–Smale condition.
Furthermore, if
 $A(x, t, \xi)$
grows fast enough with respect to
 $t$
, then the nonlinear term related to
 $f(x, t)$
may have also a supercritical growth.
Citation: Anna Maria Candela, Addolorata Salvatore. Positive solutions for some generalized $p$–Laplacian type problems. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2020, 13 (7) : 1935-1945. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2020151
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