On a nonlocal asymmetric Kirchhoff problem

Abstract

This work is devoted to study the existence of nontrivial solutions to nonlocal asymmetric problems involving the [Formula: see text]-Laplacian. [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, [Formula: see text] is a Kirchhoff function, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is of subcritical polynomial or subcritical exponential growth. Moreover, the existence of nontrivial solutions for the above problem is obtained by using variational methods combined with the Moser–Trudinger inequality. Our interest then is to study [Formula: see text] without the analogue of Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz superquadratic condition ([Formula: see text] condition for short) in the positive semi-axis. To the best of our best knowledge, our results are new even in the asymmetric Kirchhoff Laplacian and [Formula: see text]-Laplacian cases.