International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 21 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 321-330
doi:10.1155/S0161171298000441
On a class of semilinear elliptic problems near critical growth
1Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia 70910-900, DF, Brazil
2Departamento de Matemática, Unesp- Presidente Prudente, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil
Received 17 May 1996; Revised 30 January 1997
Copyright © 1998 J. V. Goncalves and S. Meira. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
We use Minimax Methods and explore compact embedddings in the context of
Orlicz and Orlicz-Sobolev spaces to get existence of weak solutions on a class of semilinear elliptic
equations with nonlinearities near critical growth. We consider both biharmonic equations with
Navier boundary conditions and Laplacian equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions.