Multiple nontrivial solutions for some fourth-order semilinear elliptic problems (Q707218)

The goal of the authors is to study the existence of multiple nontrivial solutions to the fourth order semilinear equation: \[ \Delta^2u+c \Delta u=f(x,u)\text{ in }\Omega\quad u|_{\partial\Omega}=\Delta u |_{\partial\Omega}=0,\tag{1} \] where \(\Omega\) is a bounded open set in \(\mathbb R^N\) with smooth boundary, \(\Delta^2\) denotes the biharmonic operator, \(c\in\mathbb R\) and \(f\) is a given Carathéodory function. To this end they use Morse theory and local linking to find weak solutions.