Nonradial positive solutions for a biharmonic critical growth problem

Zhongliang Wang

doi:10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.517

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2012, Volume 11, Issue 2: 517-545. Doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.517

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Nonradial positive solutions for a biharmonic critical growth problem

Zhongliang Wang^1,

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Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200241

Received: August 31, 2010

Revised: July 31, 2011

Published: February 2012

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We investigate the existence of nonradial positive solutions for a critical semilinear biharmonic problem defined on a unit ball. The solution is obtained as a minimizer of the quotient functional associated to the problem restricted to appropriate subspaces of $H^2\cap H^1_0$ invariant for the action of a subgroup of $O(N)$. By making use of more careful estimates and some new arguments, we extend Serra's result in [41] to the biharmonic case.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35J35, 35B33; Secondary: 35J60.

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