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MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS FOR A KIRCHHOFF EQUATION WITH NONLINEARITY HAVING ARBITRARY GROWTH

  • MARCELO F. FURTADO (a1) and HENRIQUE R. ZANATA (a2)
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We prove the existence of infinitely many solutions $u\in W_{0}^{1,2}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA})$ for the Kirchhoff equation

$$\begin{eqnarray}\displaystyle -\biggl(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}+\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}\int _{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}}|\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FB}u|^{2}\,dx\biggr)\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}u=a(x)|u|^{q-1}u+\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}f(x,u)\quad \text{in }\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}, & & \displaystyle \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$$
where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FA}\subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$ is a bounded smooth domain, $a(x)$ is a (possibly) sign-changing potential, $0 , $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}>0$ , $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FD}\geq 0$ , $\unicode[STIX]{x1D707}>0$ and the function $f$ has arbitrary growth at infinity. In the proof, we apply variational methods together with a truncation argument.

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The first author was partially supported by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brazil.

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