On the Existence of Nontrivial Solutions of Quasi-asymptotically Linear Problem for the P-Laplacian

In this paper, we study the existence of nontrivial solutions for the following Dirichlet problem for the p-Laplacian (p > 1):where Ω is a bounded domain in Rn (A≥1) and f(x,u) is quasi-asymptotically linear with respect to |u|p-2 u at infinity. Recently it was proved that the above problem has a positive solution under the condition that f(x, s)/sp-1 is nondecrcasing with respect to s for all x ∈Ω and some others. In this paper. by improving the methods in the literature, we prove that the functional corresponding to the above problem still satisfies a weakened version of (P.S.) condition even if f(x, s)/sp-1 isn’t a nondecreasing function with respect to s, and then the above problem has a nontrivial weak solution by Mountain Pass Theorem.