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We prove the existence of a weak solution for a general class of Dirichlet anisotropic elliptic problems such as $\mathcal Au+\Phi(x,u,\nabla u)=\mathfrak{B}u+f$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded open subset of $\mathbb R^N$ and…
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