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Existence of positive solutions of semilinear biharmonic equations. (English) Zbl 1474.35327

Summary: This paper is concerned with the existence of positive solutions of semilinear biharmonic problem whose associated functionals do not satisfy the Palais-Smale condition.

MSC:

35J65 Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations
35J40 Boundary value problems for higher-order elliptic equations
31B30 Biharmonic and polyharmonic equations and functions in higher dimensions
35J35 Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations
35J91 Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian

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