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In the present paper, by applying variant mountain pass theorem and Ekeland variational principle we study the existence of multiple nontrivial solutions for a class of Kirchhoff type problems with concave nonlinearity
A new existence theorem and an interesting corollary of four nontrivial solutions are obtained.
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This Work is supported in partly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10961028), Yunnan NSF Grant No. 2010CD086.
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Cheng, B., Wu, X. & Liu, J. Multiple solutions for a class of Kirchhoff type problems with concave nonlinearity. Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 19, 521–537 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00030-011-0141-2
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