No label defined (Q4946289)

It is considered the problem of minimizing the functional \[ \mathcal{I}_{\Omega}(u) = \int_{\Omega} [(\Delta u)^{2} - b|\nabla u|^{2} + \psi(u)] dx dy \] which depends on bounded domains \(\Omega\in \mathbb{R}^{2}\) and \(u \in H^{2}_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}^{2})\). The function \(\psi(\cdot)\) is continuous and satisfies \(\lim\limits_{|u|\to \infty} \psi(u)/ u^{2+\varepsilon} = \infty.\) The model under consideration describes the structure of viscoelastic material. In various model the analysis of high dimensional cases is complicated and one is tempted to restrict to radially symmetric functions (when the model has this symmetry). It is presented a method which attempts to decide whether this is justified. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00022].