Boundary Value Problems
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 579387, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/579387

Existence and Multiplicity of Positive Solutions to a Class of Quasilinear Elliptic Equations in N

Tsing-San Hsu

Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan

Abstract

We consider the following class of quasilinear elliptic equations -hpΔpu+Vε(x)|u|p-2u=|u|q-2u, u(x)>0 for all xRN, where h>0, Δpu= div(|u|p-2u), 2p<N, p<q<p*=Np/(N-p). We allow the potential Vε to be unbounded below and prove the existence and multiplicity for positive solutions.