Abstract
By using variational methods and critical point theory in an appropriate Orlicz-Sobolev setting, the authors establish the existence of infinitely many non-negative weak solutions to a non-homogeneous Neumann problem. They also provide some particular cases and an example to illustrate the main results in this paper.
Communicated by Giuseppe Di Fazio
Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank the referee for making some very helpful suggestions.
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