Existence of solutions for elliptic equations without superquadraticity condition

Abstract

By weakening or dropping the superquadraticity condition (SQC), the existence of positive solutions for a class of elliptic equations is established. In particular, we deal with the asymptotical linearities as well as the superlinear nonlinearities.

Keywords

Mountain pass / superquadraticity condition (SQC) / Palais-Smale type condition / weakly superquadraticity condition (WSQC)

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