A compactness type result for Paneitz-Branson operators with critical nonlinearity. (Q976609)

Given \((M,g)\), a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\geq 8\), the author considers solutions \(u_\alpha \) of \(\Delta ^2_g u-\operatorname {div}_g(A_\alpha \,\text du)+a_\alpha u=u^{2^\sharp -1}\), where \(A_\alpha \) is a smooth, symmetric \((2,0)\) tensor and \(a_\alpha \) a smooth function. Assuming that \(A_\alpha \) and \(a_\alpha \) converge in a suitable sense as \(\alpha \to \infty \), conditions under which the weak limit of \(u_\alpha \) is nontrivial are obtained.