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Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of superlinear-Laplacian equations

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By a variant version of mountain pass theorem, the existence and multiplicity of solutions are obtained for a class of superlinear-Laplacian equations:. In this paper, we suppose neither satisfies the superquadratic condition in Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz sense nor is nondecreasing with respect to.

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Wang, J., Tang, CL. Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of superlinear-Laplacian equations. Bound Value Probl 2006, 47275 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/BVP/2006/47275

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