Open Access Research Article

Entire Bounded Solutions for a Class of Quasilinear Elliptic Equations

Zuodong Yang* and Bing Xu

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Institute of Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Jiangsu Nanjing 210097, China

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Boundary Value Problems 2007, 2007:016407 doi:10.1155/2007/16407


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Received:29 June 2006
Accepted:17 October 2006
Published:9 January 2007

© 2007 Yang and Xu

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We consider the problem where is not identically zero. Under the condition that satisfies (H), we show that there exists such that the above-mentioned equation admits at least one solution for all . This extends the results of Laplace equation to the case of -Laplace equation.

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