Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 1, Pages 11-31
doi:10.1155/AAA.2005.11

Quasilinear degenerate elliptic unilateral problems

L. Aharouch, Y. Akdim, and E. Azroul

Département deMathématiques et Informatique, Faculté des Sciences Dhar-Mahraz, BP 1796 Atlas, Fès, Morocco

Received 20 February 2004

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Abstract

We will be concerned with the existence result of a degenerate elliptic unilateral problem of the form Au+H(x,u,u)=f, where A is a Leray-Lions operator from W1,p(Ω,w) into its dual. On the nonlinear lower-order term H(x,u,u), we assume that it is a Carathéodory function having natural growth with respect to |u|, but without assuming the sign condition. The right-hand side f belongs to L1(Ω).