TY - JOUR ID - Allaoui2015 LB - Allaoui2015 AU - Allaoui, Mostafa TI - Continuous spectrum of Steklov nonhomogeneous elliptic problem ST - Continuous spectrum of Steklov nonhomogeneous elliptic problem JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2015 VL - 35 IS - 6 SP - 853 EP - 866 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.6.853 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2015.35.6.853 AB - By applying two versions of the mountain pass theorem and Ekeland's variational principle, we prove three different situations of the existence of solutions for the following Steklov problem: \[\begin{aligned}\Delta_{p(x)} u&=|u|^{p(x)-2}u \phantom{\lambda} \quad\text{in}\;\Omega, \\ |\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}&= \lambda|u|^{q(x)-2}u \quad\text{on}\;\partial\Omega,\end{aligned}\] where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N\) \((N\geq 2)\) is a bounded smooth domain and \(p,q: \overline{\Omega}\rightarrow(1,+\infty)\) are continuous functions. KW - \(p(x)\)-Laplacian KW - Steklov problem KW - critical point theorem SN - 1232-9274 ER -