Concentration for a bi-harmonic Schrödinger equation with critical nonlinearity (Q892331)

The author considers a fourth order non-linear Schrödinger equation involving the biharmonic operator, namely \[ \left\{\begin{aligned} &\varepsilon^4\Delta^2u+Vu=P(f(|u|)+|u|^{2^*-2}),\;\;x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\\ &u(x)\to0\text{ as }|x|\to\infty. \end{aligned}\right. \] The analog with the Laplacian has been extensively studied in the literature, and the arguments cannot be directly applied to the biharmonic operator due to the lack of a neat maximum principle for higher order operators. Nevertheless, using variational arguments involving the Nehari manifolds and mountain-pass techniques, the author can prove a convergence theorem for the solution of the problem as \(\varepsilon\to0\).