Applications of local linking to nonlocal Neumann problems

Abstract

We study a nonlocal Neumann problem driven by a nonhomogeneous elliptic differential operator. The reaction term is a nonlinearity function that exhibits p-superlinear growth but need not satisfy the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition. By using an abstract linking theorem for smooth functionals, we prove a multiplicity result on the existence of weak solutions for such problems. An explicit example illustrates the main abstract result of this paper.