## Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis

### On the existence of positive entire solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations

Marco Squassina

#### Abstract

Via non-smooth critical point theory, we prove existence of entire positive solutions for a class of nonlinear elliptic problems with asymptotic $p$-Laplacian behaviour and subjected to natural growth conditions.

#### Article information

Source
Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal., Volume 17, Number 1 (2001), 23-39.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 22 August 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmna/1471875795

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1846976

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0997.35019

#### Citation

Squassina, Marco. On the existence of positive entire solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 17 (2001), no. 1, 23--39. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmna/1471875795

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