Multiplicity of Solutions for a Kirchhoff Multi-Phase Problem with Variable Exponents

Abstract

In this paper, we study a Kirchhoff-type problem driven by a multi-phase operator with three variable exponents. Such problem has a right-hand side consisting of a Carathéodory perturbation which is defined only locally as well as the Kirchhoff term. Using a generalized version of the symmetric mountain pass theorem along with recent a priori upper bounds for multi-phase problems, we get whole a sequence of nontrivial solutions for our problem converging to zero in the appropriate Musielak-Orlicz Sobolev space and in \(L^{\infty }(\Omega )\).