On a nonlinear PDE involving weighted $p$-Laplacian

Abstract

In the present paper, we study the nonlinear partial differential equation with the weighted $p$-Laplacian operator
\begin{gather*}
- \operatorname{div}(w(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u) = \frac{ f(x)}{(1-u)^{2}},
\end{gather*}
on a ball ${B}_{r}\subset \mathbb{R}^{N}(N\geq 2)$. Under some appropriate conditions
on the functions $f, w$ and the nonlinearity $\frac{1}{(1-u)^{2}}$, we prove the existence and the uniqueness of solutions of the above problem. Our analysis mainly combines the variational method and critical point theory. Such solution is obtained as a minimizer for the energy functional associated with our problem in the setting of the weighted Sobolev spaces.