Concentration phenomena for a fourth-order equation on \(\mathbb R^n\) (Q2270625)

This paper is devoted to the study of nodal (that is, sign-changing) solutions to the problem \(\Delta^2u=K(y)|u|^{8/(n-4)}\) in \({\mathbb R}^n\), subject to the limiting condition \(u\), \(\Delta u\rightarrow 0\) as \(|y|\rightarrow\infty\), where \(n\geq 5\) and \(K\) is a bounded and continuous potential function. The main result of the paper establishes that, under some natural growth assumptions on \(K\), there are infinitely many solutions which concentrate around \(k\) points, for any \(k\geq 2\). Moreover, it is argued that there is no solution which concentrates at a single point. The proof combines elliptic estimates with variational methods.