Nonhomogeneous equations with critical exponential growth and lack of compactness

Abstract

We study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for the following class of quasilinear problems \[-\operatorname{div}(a(|\nabla u|^{p})| \nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)+V(\epsilon x)b(|u|^{p})|u|^{p-2}u=f(u) \qquad\text{ in } \mathbb{R}^N,\] where \(\epsilon\) is a positive parameter. We assume that \(V:\mathbb{R}^N \to \mathbb{R}\) is a continuous potential and \(f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) is a smooth reaction term with critical exponential growth.

Keywords

• exponential critical growth
• quasilinear equation
• trudinger-moser inequality
• moser iteration