On a bi-harmonic equation involving critical exponent: existence and multiplicity results

DOI10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60311-1zbMath1249.53040MaRDI QIDQ423202

Hichem Chtioui, Zakaria Boucheche, Ridha Yacoub

Publication date: 1 June 2012

Published in: Acta Mathematica Scientia. Series B. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Morse inequalities; Palais-Smale condition; critical points at infinity; Morse lemma at infinity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

53C15: General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.)

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions