Elliptic problems in variable exponent spaces

In this paper we study a nonlinear elliptic equation involving p(x)-growth conditions on a bounded domain having cylindrical symmetry. We establish existence and multiplicity results using as main tools the mountain pass theorem of Ambosetti and Rabinowitz and Ekeland's variational principle.

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