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In the present paper, we establish the range of two parameters for which a non-homogeneous boundary value problem admits at least three weak solutions. The proof of the main results relies on recent variational principles due to Ricceri.
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V. Rădulescu acknowledges the support through Grant Advanced Collaborative Research Projects CNCS-PCCA-23/2014.
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Afrouzi, G.A., Rădulescu, V.D. & Shokooh, S. Multiple Solutions of Neumann Problems: An Orlicz–Sobolev Space Setting. Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc. 40, 1591–1611 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40840-015-0153-x
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