Existence and multiplicity of solutions to equations of $N-$Laplacian type with critical exponential growth in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with the existence and multiplicity of solutions to the nonuniformly elliptic equation of the N-Lapalcian type with a potential and a nonlinear term of critical exponential growth and satisfying the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition. In spite of a possible failure of the Palais-Smale compactness condition, in this article we apply minimax method to obtain the weak solution to such an equation. In particular, in the case of $N-$Laplacian, using the minimization and the Ekeland variational principle, we obtain multiplicity of weak solutions. Finally, we will prove the above results when our nonlinearity doesn't satisfy the well-known Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition and thus derive the existence and multiplicity of solutions for a much wider class of nonlinear terms $f$.

30 pages. First draft in November, 2010

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• N-Laplacian equations in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ with subcritical and critical growth without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition