On Blow-Up of Positive Solutions for A Riharmonic Equation Involving Nearly Critical Exponent (Q4719946)

The present paper is devoted to an interesting biharmonic problem \(\Delta^2u= c_0u^{p_\tau}\), \(u>0\) in \(\Omega\) with Navier boundary condition \(u=\Delta u=0\) on \(\partial\Omega\) involving nearly critical growth, where \(\Omega\) is a bounded smooth convex domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) \((n\geq 5)\), \(\tau >0\) is small, \(p_\tau=p -\tau\) with \(\tau\in [0,p)\) and \(p+1= 2n/(n-4)\) is the critical exponent of the imbedding \(H^1_0(\Omega)\cap H^2(\Omega) \hookrightarrow L^{p+1} (\Omega)\), and \(c_0=(n-4)(n-2)n(n+2)\). The author presents multiple blow-up results to the problem under consideration. The first main result includes the estimate \(\|u_\tau \|_{H^1_0 (\Omega)\cap H^2 (\Omega)}\leq M\), where \(u_\tau\) is any solution of the considered problem depending on \(\tau\in (0,p)\) and \(M>0\). The second result is that any sequence of positive solutions with \(\tau\to 0\) has to blow up and concentrate at finitely many points in the interior of the domain \(\Omega\). With a blow-up argument, it is also given the energy a priori estimate of positive solutions.