We consider the following equationΔpu(x)+f(u,x)=0, where , n>p>1, and we assume that f is negative for u small and where , so f(u,0) is subcritical and superlinear at infinity.
In this paper we generalize the results obtained in a previous paper, [11], where the prototypical nonlinearityf(u,r)=−k1(r)uuq1−2+k2(r)uuq2−2 is considered, with the further restriction 1
2. We manage to prove the existence of a radial ground state, for more generic functions f(u,x) and also in the case p>2 and 1