Existence of entire solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations

Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 977-1009

  Autuori, Giuseppina ^a   Pucci, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Divergence type operators; Ekeland'sprinciple; Quasilinear elliptic equations; Variational methods; Weighted Sobolev spaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878419492     PISSN: 10219722     EISSN: 14209004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00030-012-0193-y     Document Type: Article

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