Existence and concentration of solutions for a class of biharmonic equations (Q408278)

This paper deals with qualitative properties of \(H^2(\mathbb{R}^N)\) solutions to \(-\varepsilon^{4}\Delta^{2} u+V(x) u=f(u)\) in \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 5\), where \(\Delta^2\) is the biharmonic operator, \(f\) and \(V\) satisfy some growth conditions at zero and infinity. A nontrivial family of solutions is obtained that concentrates at a point in the limit. The proofs rely essentially on variational methods under a weaker Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition.