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In this paper, by using concentration-compactness principle and a new version of the symmetric mountain-pass lemma due to Kajikiya (J Funct Anal 225:352–370, 2005), infinitely many small solutions are obtained for a class of quasilinear elliptic equation with singular potential
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Liang, S., Zhang, J. Multiplicity of solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equation involving the critical Sobolev and Hardy exponents. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 17, 55–67 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-009-0039-4
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