TY - JOUR ID - Figueiredo2020 LB - Figueiredo2020 AU - Figueiredo, Giovany M. AU - Rădulescu, Vicenţiu D. TI - Nonhomogeneous equations with critical exponential growth and lack of compactness ST - Nonhomogeneous equations with critical exponential growth and lack of compactness JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2020 VL - 40 IS - 1 SP - 71 EP - 92 DO - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2020.40.1.71 UR - https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2020.40.1.71 AB - We study the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for the following class of quasilinear problems \[-\operatorname{div}(a(|\nabla u|^{p})| \nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)+V(\epsilon x)b(|u|^{p})|u|^{p-2}u=f(u) \qquad\text{ in } \mathbb{R}^N,\] where \(\epsilon\) is a positive parameter. We assume that \(V:\mathbb{R}^N \to \mathbb{R}\) is a continuous potential and \(f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) is a smooth reaction term with critical exponential growth. KW - exponential critical growth KW - quasilinear equation KW - Trudinger-Moser inequality KW - Moser iteration SN - 1232-9274 ER -