Further study of a fourth-order elliptic equation with negative exponent
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2011
Abstract
We continue to study the nonlinear fourth-order problem TΔu – DΔ2u = λ/(L + u)2, –L < u < 0 in Ω, u = 0, Δu = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω ⊂ ℝN is a bounded smooth domain and λ > 0 is a parameter. When N = 2 and Ω is a convex domain, we know that there is λc > 0 such that for λ ∊ (0, λc) the problem possesses at least two regular solutions. We will see that the convexity assumption on Ω can be removed, i.e. the main results are still true for a general bounded smooth domain Ω. The main technique in the proofs of this paper is the blow-up argument, and the main difficulty is the analysis of touch-down behaviour.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 141 , Issue 3 , June 2011 , pp. 537 - 549
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011
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