Estimates for the Green function and existence of positive solutions for higher-order elliptic equations (Q2491404)

Summary: We establish a \(3G\)-theorem for the iterated Green function of \((-\Delta )^{pm}\), (\(p\geq 1\), \(m\geq 1\)), on the unit ball \(B\) of \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\)\((n\geq 1)\) with boundary conditions \((\partial/\partial \nu) ^{j}(-\Delta )^{km}u=0\) on \(\partial B\), for \(0\leq k\leq p-1\) and \(0\leq j\leq m-1\). We exploit this result to study a class of potentials \(\mathcal{J}_{m,n}^{(p)}\). Next, we aim at proving the existence of positive continuous solutions for the following polyharmonic nonlinear problems \((-\Delta )^{pm}u=h(\cdot,u)\), in \(D\) (in the sense of distributions), \(\lim_{|x|\rightarrow 1}((-\Delta)^{km}u(x)/(1-|x|)^{m-1})=0\), for \(D=B\) or \(B\backslash \{0\}\) and \(h\) is a Borel measurable function on \(D\times (0,\infty )\) satisfying some appropriate conditions related to \(\mathcal{J}_{m,n}^{(p)}\).