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March  2012, 11(2): 453-464. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.453

Solutions for polyharmonic elliptic problems with critical nonlinearities in symmetric domains

Jingbo Dou 1, and  Qianqiao Guo 2,

1. 

Center for Nonlinear Studies, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710069, China
2. 

Department of Applied Mathematics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710129, China

Received  January 2010 Revised  May 2011 Published  October 2011

Consider the polyharmonic elliptic problem \begin{eqnarray*} (-\Delta)^m u=\lambda u+Q(x)|u|^{2^*-2}u & in \Omega, \\ (\frac{\partial}{\partial\nu })^j u |_{\partial\Omega}=0, j=0, 1, 2, \cdots, m-1,& \end{eqnarray*} where $\Omega$ is an open bounded domain with smooth boundary in $R^N$, $m\geq 1,N>2m, 2^*=\frac{2N}{N-2m}$ is the critical Sobolev exponent, $Q(x)$ is positive and continuous in $\overline{\Omega}$. We prove the existence of nontrivial and sign-changing solutions when $\Omega$, $Q(x)$ are invariant under a group of orthogonal transformations and $0 < \lambda < \lambda_1$, where $\lambda_1$ is the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of $(-\Delta)^m$ in $\Omega$.
Keywords: Polyharmonic elliptic problem, symmetric domain., critical Sobolev exponent.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B33, 35J35; Secondary: 35G3.
Citation: Jingbo Dou, Qianqiao Guo. Solutions for polyharmonic elliptic problems with critical nonlinearities in symmetric domains. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2012, 11 (2) : 453-464. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.453
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G. Cerami, S. Solimini and M. Struwe, Some existence results for superlinear elliptic boundary value problems involving critical exponents, J. Funct. Anal., 69 (1986), 289-306. doi: 10.1016/0022-1236(86)90094-7.  Google Scholar

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[11]

H. Grunau, Positive solutions to semilinear polyharmonic Dirichlet problems involving critical Sobolev exponents, Calc. Var. PDE., 3 (1995), 243-252. doi: 10.1007/BF01205006.  Google Scholar

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[14]

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F. Gazzola, H. Grunau and G. Sweers, "Polyharmonic Boundary Value Problems," Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 2009, 305-312. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12245-3.  Google Scholar

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