Positive Solution for a Class of Degenerate Quasilinear Elliptic Equations in R N

We establish a result on the existence of a positive solution for the following class of degenerate quasilinear elliptic problems: $$(P)\quad \quad \left\{\begin{array}{ll}{-\Delta_{ap}u + V(x)|x|^{-ap^*} |u|^{p-2} u=K(x)f(x, u), {\rm in} \, R^N,}\\ {u > 0, {\rm in} \, R^N , \, u \in \mathcal{D}^{1,p}_a}{(R^N)},\end{array}\right. $$ denotes the Hardy-Sobolev’s \({{-\Delta_{ap}u = - div(|x|^{-ap}|\nabla u|^{p-2} \nabla u), 1 < p < N, -\infty < a < \frac{N-p}{p}, a \leq e \leq a+1, d=1+a-e}}\) , and \({{p^* := p^*(a,e)=\frac{Np}{N-dp}}}\) denotes the Hardy-Sobolev’s critical exponent, V and K are bounded nonnegative continuous potentials, K vanishes at infinity, and f has a subcritical growth at infinity. The technique used here is the variational approach.