AbstractIn this work we study the existence of solutions $$u \in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega )$$
u
∈
W
0
1
,
p
(
Ω
)
to the implicit elliptic problem $$ f(x, u, \nabla u, \Delta _p u)= 0$$
f
(
x
,
u
,
∇
u
,
Δ
p
u
)
=
0
in $$ \Omega $$
Ω
, where $$ \Omega $$
Ω
is a bounded domain in $$ {\mathbb {R}}^N $$
R
N
, $$ N \ge 2 $$
N
≥
2
, with smooth boundary $$ \partial \Omega $$
∂
Ω
, $$ 1< p< \infty $$
1
<
p
<
∞
, and $$ f:\Omega \times {\mathbb {R}}\times {\mathbb {R}}^N \times {\mathbb {R}}\rightarrow {\mathbb {R}}$$
f
:
Ω
×
R
×
R
N
×
R
→
R
. We choose the particular case when the function f can be expressed in the form $$ f(x, z, w, y)= \varphi (x, z, w)- \psi (y) $$
f
(
x
,
z
,
w
,
y
)
=
φ
(
x
,
z
,
w
)
-
ψ
(
y
)
, where the function $$ \psi $$
ψ
depends only on the p-Laplacian $$ \Delta _p u $$
Δ
p
u
. We also present some applications of our results.