Multiple solutions for the $p-$laplace operator with critical growth

Pablo L. De Nápoli, Julián Fernández Bonder, Analía Silva

Published 2008-08-22, updated 2009-02-25Version 2

In this note we show the existence of at least three nontrivial solutions to the following quasilinear elliptic equation $-\Delta_p u = |u|^{p^*-2}u + \lambda f(x,u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\R^N$ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on $\partial\Omega$, where $p^*=Np/(N-p)$ is the critical Sobolev exponent and $\Delta_p u =div(|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)$ is the $p-$laplacian. The proof is based on variational arguments and the classical concentrated compactness method.