Minimax Theory and its Applications 08 (2023), No. 2, 381--392
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2023
Multiplicity Theorems for Biharmonic Kirchhoff-Type Elliptic Problems
Lingju Kong
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, U.S.A.
lingju-kong@utc.edu
[Abstract-pdf]
We study the existence of multiple weak solutions for the biharmonic Kirchhoff-type elliptic problem \begin{equation*} \left\{\ \begin{aligned} & M\left(\int_{\Omega}(|\Delta u|^p+|\nabla u|^p)dx\right)\left(\Delta_p^2u-\Delta_p u\right) =\sum_{i=1}^k\alpha_i(x)f_i(u) + \gamma(x)\ \text{in}\ \Omega,\\[2pt] & u = \Delta u=0\quad \text{on}\ \partial\Omega,\ \ \int_{\Omega}\left(|\Delta u|^{p}+|\nabla u|^p\right)dx<\rho. \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*} We establish necessary and sufficient conditions on $f_i$, $i=1,\ldots, k$, under which there exists functions $\alpha_i, \gamma\in C(\overline{\Omega})$, $i=1,\ldots, k$, such that the above problem has at least two weak solutions. Our proof uses the variational approaches and relies on an existence result for crical points of functionals in Banach spaces recently obtained by Ricceri.
Keywords: Kirchhoff-type problems, $p$-Laplacian operator, p-biharmonic operator, weak solutions, critical points, contraction mapping theorem.
MSC: 35G30, 35J58, 49J35.
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