On principal eigenvalues for quasilinear elliptic differential operators: an Orlicz-Sobolev space setting
On principal eigenvalues for quasilinear elliptic differential operators: an Orlicz-Sobolev space setting
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10.1007/s000300050073
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1999-05
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M. García-Huidobro;V. Le;R. Manásevich;K. Schmitt
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M. García-Huidobro;V. Le;R. Manásevich;K. Schmitt
In this paper we consider eigenvalue problems for quasilinear elliptic partial differential equations which are motivated by eigenvalue problems for the p-Laplacian (cf.[3],[8],[9],[19]). As in [10] we shall consider more general problems, which involve nonhomogeneous differential operators. Whereas there we considered boundary value problems in spaces of radial functions,(and hence obtained problems for nonlinear ordinary differential equations), here we consider the problem on general domains and find an Orlicz-Sobolev space ([1],[15],[17]) setting to be a suitable framework for the problem. We reduce the problem of the existence of eigenvalues of the nonlinear elliptic equation to the question of the existence of a minimum of a coercive extended real valued functional (defined in an Orlicz-Sobolev space) which is subject to a constraint. The existence of the eigenvalue then will follow