Existence of solutions for a class of semilinear polyharmonic equations with critical exponential growth (Q1575822)

Consider the Dirichlet problem (P) \((- \Delta) ^m u=g(x,u)\) in \(\Omega\) subject to the boundary condition \(u= D u= \ldots = D ^{m-1} u=0\) on \(\partial \Omega\) where \(\Omega\) is a bounded regular subset of \({\mathbb R}^{2m}\), \(m\geq 1\). Using a variational method, the author proves the existence of nontrivial weak solutions to (P) when \(g(x,t)\) belongs to \({\mathcal C} ^1(\overline{\Omega}\times{\mathbb R})\) and behaves like \(\exp(t^2)\) at infinity.