Existence results for polyharmonic boundary value problems in the unit ball (Q2472081)

Summary: Here we study the polyharmonic nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem on the unit ball \(B\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) \((n\geq 2)\) \((-\Delta)^mu+ g(\cdot,u)=0\), in \(B\) (in the sense of distributions) \(\lim_{x\to\xi\in \partial B}(u(x)/(1-|x|^2)^{m-1})=0(\xi)\). Under appropriate conditions related to a Kato class on the nonlinearity \(g(x,t)\), we give some existence results. Our approach is based on estimates for the polyharmonic Green function on \(B\) with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, including a 3G-theorem, which leeds to some useful properties on functions belonging to the Kato class.