Isolated singularities of positive solutions of a superlinear biharmonic equation (Q679211)

The purpose of this paper is to study the local behavior of positive solutions \(u\in C^4(\Omega\backslash\{0\})\) of the semilinear biharmonic equation \(\Delta^2u=|x|^\sigma u^p\) with \(u\geq 0\), \(-\Delta u\geq 0\) in \(\Omega\backslash \{0\}\), where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\) \((N\geq 4)\) is a ball centered at the origin of radius \(R>0\), \(\sigma\in(-4,0]\), \(p\in(1,\infty)\). The author is concerned with the a priori majorization of solutions, the nature of the non-removable singularities, and the behavior of a positive solution in a neighborhood of the isolated singularity. Namely, for \(N>4\), \(p\in(1,(n+\sigma)/(N-4))\), and for \(N=4\), \(p\in(1,\infty)\) the complete description of the singularity is obtained and an existence of singular solutions is proved. For the case \(N>4\), \(p\in[(n+\sigma)/(N-4),\infty)\) a priori estimates for radially symmetric solutions are established.