On $(p,N)$-Laplace multivalued equations with critical exponential nonlinearity in $\mathbb{R}^N$
Ankit, Abhishek Sarkar
TL;DR
The paper addresses the existence of nonnegative solutions to multivalued $(p,N)$-Laplace equations with discontinuous nonlinearities exhibiting exponential critical growth in $\mathbb{R}^N$. It develops a non-smooth variational framework in the weighted space $\mathbf{X}=W_V^{1,p}(\mathbb{R}^N)\cap W_V^{1,N}(\mathbb{R}^N)$, leveraging Orlicz spaces and Trudinger–Moser type inequalities to handle the exponential nonlinearity. By combining Ekeland’s variational principle and a non-smooth Mountain Pass theorem, the authors prove the existence of two nonnegative solutions for small $\varepsilon$, with one solution having negative energy and the other positive energy, and in a coupled setting, two nonnegative solutions exist. The results extend multiplicity theory to non-differentiable, non-Hilbert settings with exponential critical growth, providing a framework applicable to free-boundary and reaction-diffusion-type models in unbounded domains.
Abstract
In this paper, we study the existence of nonnegative solutions for a class of multivalued $(p,N)$-Laplace problems having discontinuous nonlinearity with critical exponential growth in $\mathbb{R}^N$. To demonstrate the existence results, we utilized variational methods for non-differentiable functions.
