Multiple solutions for operator equations involving duality mappings on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces

Abstract

Let $X$ be a real reflexive, smooth and separable Banach space having the Kadeč-Klee property and compactly imbedded in the real Banach space $Y$ and let $G:Y\rightarrow \mathbb{R} $ be a differentiable functional. By using the "fountain theorem" (Bartsch [3]), we will study the multiplicity of solutions for the operator equation \[ J_{\varphi}u=G^{\prime}(u)\text{,} \] where $J_{\varphi}$ is the duality mapping on $X$, corresponding to the gauge function $\varphi$. Equations having the above form with $J_{\varphi}$ a duality mapping on Orlicz-Sobolev spaces are considered as applications. As particular cases of the latter results, some multiplicity results concerning duality mappings on Sobolev spaces are derived.