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Existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for subquadratic \(p-\)Laplacian fourth-order differential equations

Mohsen Timoumi1
1University of Monastir, Monastir 5000, Tunisia
Copyright © Mohsen Timoumi. 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

This article concerns the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for the following fourth-order differential equation with \(p-\)Laplacian \[\Big(\left|u''(t)\right|^{p-2}u''(t)\Big)''-\omega\Big(\left|u'(t)\right|^{p-2}u'(t)\Big)'+V(t)\left|u(t)\right|^{p-2}u(t)=f(t,u(t)),\] where \(p>1\), \(\omega\) is a constant, \(V\in C(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\) is noncoercive and \(f\in C(\mathbb{R}^{2},\mathbb{R})\) is of subquadratic growth at infinity. Some results are proved using variational methods, the minimization theorem and the generalized Clark’s theorem. Recent results in the literature are extended and improved.

Keywords: Fourth-order differential equations, p-Laplacian, homoclinic solutions, variational methods, minimisation theorem, Clark’s theorem