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A note on the existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations: an Orlicz-Sobolev space setting

Yang Yang1* and Jihui Zhang2

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1 School of Science, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, People’s Republic of China

2 School of Mathematics Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210097, People’s Republic of China

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Boundary Value Problems 2012, 2012:136 doi:10.1186/1687-2770-2012-136

Published: 22 November 2012

Abstract

In this note, we study the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the quasilinear elliptic problem as follows:

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Keywords:
Orlicz-Sobolev spaces; symmetric mountain pass theorem; quasilinear elliptic equations