American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2014, 13(2): 811-821. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.811

Radial and non radial ground states for a class of dilation invariant fourth order semilinear elliptic equations on $R^n$

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino, via Carlo Alberto, 10-10123 Torino, Italy

Received  April 2013 Revised  July 2013 Published  October 2013

We prove existence of extremal functions for some Rellich-Sobolev type inequalities involving the $L^2$ norm of the Laplacian as a leading term and the $L^2$ norm of the gradient, weighted with a Hardy potential. Moreover we exhibit a breaking symmetry phenomenon when the nonlinearity has a growth close to the critical one and the singular potential increases in strength.
Citation: Paolo Caldiroli. Radial and non radial ground states for a class of dilation invariant fourth order semilinear elliptic equations on $R^n$. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2014, 13 (2) : 811-821. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.811
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