拟线性椭圆算子的(S)+性质与p(x)-Laplace型方程.pdfVIP

(S)+-property of quasilinear elliptic operators and equations of p (x)-Laplacian type∗ † Xianling Fan, Chun-Xia Guan Department of Mathematics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China Abstract Applying the theory of the vector valued Musielak-Orlicz spaces, we give a sufficient condition in order that a quasilinear elliptic oper- ator with the variational structure is of type (S)+ , which is stated by the term of the uniform convexity of the corresponding Musielak-Orlicz function. As an application of this result, we obtain the (S)+-property of the operators of the p (x)-Laplacian type and some results on the ex- istence and multiplicity for the equations of the p (x)-Laplacian type, where the operators of the p (x)-Laplacian type are a generalization of the p (x)-Laplacian operator. MSC : 35J20; 35J70; 46A80; 46E40; 47H05 Keywords : Musielak-Orlicz space; uniform convexity; mapping of type (S)+ ; quasilinear elliptic operator; equation of p (x)-Laplacian type 1 Introduction It is well known that the (S)+-property of the mappings plays an important role in the monotone mapping theory and the critical point theory (see e.g. [7,16,26,39]). This paper deals with the (S)+-property of the quasilinear elliptic operators. Let Ω be an open subset of RN and let T (u) = −div(a(x, ∇u)) be a quasilinear elliptic operator on Ω and possess the variational structure, that N is a(x, ξ) = A (x, ξ), where A : Ω × R → R and A (x, ξ) denotes the derivative of A(x, ξ) with respect to ξ . For simplicity, let us