On a singular sublinear polyharmonic problem (Q2472111)

Summary: This paper deals with a class of singular nonlinear polyharmonic equations on the unit ball \(B\) in \(\mathbb R^n\) \((n\geq2)\) where the combined effects of a singular and a sublinear term allow us by using the Schauder fixed-point theorem to establish an existence result for the following problem: \((-\Delta)^mu= \varphi(\cdot,u)+ \psi(\cdot,u)\) in \(B\) (in the sense of distributions), \(u>0\), \(\lim_{|x|\to1} u(x)/(1-|x|)^{m-1}=0\). Our approach is based on estimates for the polyharmonic Green function on \(B\) with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions.