Existence of nontrivial solutions to polyharmonic equations with subcritical and critical exponential growth

DOI10.3934/dcds.2012.32.2187zbMath1245.35064MaRDI QIDQ423865

Guozhen Lu, Lam Hoang Nguyen

Publication date: 30 May 2012

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2012.32.2187

zbMATH Keywords

regularity of solutions; Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition; Palais-Smale sequence; existence of nontrivial solutions; Adams inequality; Moser-Trudinger's inequality; nonlinearity of exponential growth; polyharmonic operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B65: Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs

35A01: Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence

35J30: Higher-order elliptic equations

35J91: Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian