American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

2003, 2003(Special): 393-402. doi: 10.3934/proc.2003.2003.393

Existence and nonexistence of nontrivial solutions of some nonlinear fourth order elliptic equations

 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime, Japan 790-77

Received  September 2002 Revised  March 2003 Published  April 2003

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence and nonexistence of nontrivial solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations involving a biharmonic operator. Concerning the second order equations, a complementary result was obtained for the problem of interior, exterior and whole space. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss whether the complementary result mentioned above is still valid for the nonlinear fourth order equations. We introduce "Kelvin type transformation" for a biharmonic operator to convert an exterior problem to an interior problem. The existence results in case of super-critical exterior problem are shown by introducing a weighted version of Sobolev-Poincaré type inequality, and the nonexistence results are shown by giving a Pohozaev-type identity for fourth order equations.
Citation: Takahiro Hashimoto. Existence and nonexistence of nontrivial solutions of some nonlinear fourth order elliptic equations. Conference Publications, 2003, 2003 (Special) : 393-402. doi: 10.3934/proc.2003.2003.393
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