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Elliptic problems in variable exponent spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Mihai Mihailescu
Mihai Mihailescu
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Department of Mathematics, University of Craiova, 200585 Craiova, Romania e-mail: mmihailes@yahoo.com
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In this paper we study a nonlinear elliptic equation involving p(x)-growth conditions on a bounded domain having cylindrical symmetry. We establish existence and multiplicity results using as main tools the mountain pass theorem of Ambosetti and Rabinowitz and Ekeland's variational principle.

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , October 2006 , pp. 197 - 206
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2006

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