Sign-changing and constant-sign solutions for p-Laplacian problems with jumping nonlinearities

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 249, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3352-3376

  Motreanu, Dumitru ^a   Tanaka, Mieko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fu k spectrum of the p Laplacian; Mountain pass theorem; Sub solution and super solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049265851     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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