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By means of a recent variational technique, we prove the existence of radially monotone solutions to a class of nonlinear problems involving the p-Laplace operator. No subcriticality condition (in the sense of Sobolev spaces) is required.
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Secchi, S. Increasing variational solutions for a nonlinear p-laplace equation without growth conditions. Annali di Matematica 191, 469–485 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-011-0191-4
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