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Some remarks on a sign condition for perturbations of
nonlinear problems
A. Benkirane, J. Benouna, and M. Rhoudaf
∗
Facult´e des Sciences Dhar-Mahraz, B.P 1796 Atlas F`es, Morocco
E-mail:
∗
rhoudafmohamed@gmail.fr
In this paper, we shall be concerned with the existence result of the quasilinear
elliptic equations of the form,
Au + g(x, u, ∇u) = f,
where A is a Leray-Lions operator from W
1,p
0
(Ω) into its dual. On the nonlin-
ear lower order term g(x, u, ∇u), we assume that it is a Carath´eodory function
having natural growth with respect to |∇u|, but without assuming the sign con-
dition. The main novelty of our work is a new technique based on a Poincar´e’s
inequality. The right hand side f belongs to W
−1,p
0
(Ω) .
Keywords: Quasilinear elliptic equation; Leray-Lions operator; Existence.
1. Introduction
Let Ω be a bounded open subset of IR
N
, N ≥ 2. Let p be a real number, with
1 < p < +∞, and let p
0
be its conjugate H¨older exponent (i.e.
1
p
+
1
p
0
= 1).
Let us consider the following nonlinear elliptic problem
Au + g(x, u, ∇u) = f. (1)
Where A is a Leray-Lions operator from W
1,p
0
(Ω) into its dual W
−1,p
0
(Ω)
and g(x, u, ∇u) is a nonlinearity which satisfies the following growth con-
dition
|g(x, s, ξ)| ≤ b(|s|)γ(x) + h(s)|ξ|
p
with γ ∈ L
p
p−r
(Ω), h ∈ L
1
(IR), b(|s|) ≤ β|s|
r−1
where 0 ≤ r < p and
h, b ≥ 0.
More precisely, this paper deals with the existence of solutions to the