Special Session 34: Variational, Topological and Set-Valued Methods for Nonlinear Differential Problems

Bounded solutions for generalized quasilinear elliptic equations

Addolorata Salvatore
University of Bari
Italy
Co-Author(s):    Addolorata Salvatore
Abstract:
We give some existence results for weak bounded solutions of the generalized quasilinear Schr{\{o}}dinger equation \[ {-{\rm div}(a(x,u,\nabla u))+A_{t}(x,u,\nabla u)+V(x){|u|}^{p-2}u=g(x,u)\qquad \mbox{ in } {\R}}^{N} \] with $p>1,$ $N\geq 2$ and $V:{\R}^{N}\rightarrow {\R}$ suitable measurable positive function. Here, $A:{\R}^{N}\times {\R} \times {\R}^{N}\rightarrow {\R}$ is a ${\mathcal{C}}^{1}$-Carath\`{e}odory function which grows as ${|\xi|}^{p}$ and has partial derivatives \[ A_{t}(x,t,\xi)=\ \frac{\partial A}{\partial t}(x,t,\xi),\quad a(x,t,\xi)=\left(\frac{\partial A}{\partial {\xi_{1}}}(x,t,\xi),...,\frac{\partial A}{\partial {\xi_{N}}}(x,t,\xi )\right) \] and $g:{\R}^{N}\times {\R}\rightarrow {\R}$ is a given Carath\`{e}odory function with super$-p-$linear but subcritical growth or with sub$-p-$linear growth. Since the principal term depends on $u$, other than on its gradient ${\nabla u}$ and on the spatial variable $x$, we study the interaction of two different norms in a suitable Banach space with the aim of obtaining a good variational approach. These results are part of joint works with A.M. Candela, F. Mennuni, G. Palmieri and C. Sportelli.