Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 August 2010
Consider the p(x)-Laplacian–Dirichlet problem with sign-changing non-linearity of the form where Ω ⊂ ℝN is a bounded domain, p ∈ C0(Ω) and infx∈Ωp(x) > 1, m ∈ L∞(Ω) is non-negative, f : ℝ → ℝ is continuous and f(0) > 0, the coefficient a ∈ L∞(Ω) is sign-changing in (Ω). We give some sufficient conditions to assure the existence of a positive solution to the problem for sufficiently small λ > 0. Our results extend the corresponding results established in the p-Laplacian case to the p(x)-Laplacian case.