TY - JOUR ID - Cavalheiro2014 LB - Cavalheiro2014 AU - Cavalheiro, Albo Carlos TI - Existence and uniqueness of the solutions of some degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations ST - Existence and uniqueness of the solutions of some degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2014 VL - 34 IS - 1 SP - 15 EP - 28 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.1.15 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2014.34.1.15 AB - In this paper we are interested in the existence of solutions for the Dirichlet problem associated with degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations \[\begin{split}&-\sum_{j=1}^n D_j{\bigl[}{\omega}(x) {\cal A}_j(x, u, {\nabla}u){\bigr]} + b(x, u, {\nabla}u)\,{\omega}(x) + g(x)\,u(x)=\\&= f_0(x) - \sum_{j=1}^nD_jf_j(x) \quad{\rm on}\quad {\Omega}\end{split}\] in the setting of the weighted Sobolev spaces \({\rm W}_0^{1,p}(\Omega, \omega)\). KW - degenerate nonlinear elliptic equations KW - weighted Sobolev spaces SN - 1232-9274 ER -