Stability for entire radial solutions to the biharmonic equation with negative exponents (Q1636153)

The authors study the stability outside a compact set of the entire radial solutions to the biharmonic equation \[ \Delta^2u = -u^{-p},\quad u > 0 \text{ in } {\mathbb R}^N, \] where \(p > 0\) and \(N \geq 3\). The authors consider the initial conditions \[ u'(0) = u'''(0) = 0,\quad u(0) = 1,\quad \Delta u(0) = \beta \] with \(\beta \in {\mathbb R}\). More precisely, they solve some questions left open in atherecent paper by \textit{B. Lai} [Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., Sect. A, Math. 146, No. 1, 195--212 (2016; Zbl 1338.35191)].