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Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series

, Volume 35, Issue 12, pp 1906–1916 | Cite as

On a Critical Fourth Order PDE with Navier Boundary Condition

  • Khadijah SharafEmail author
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Abstract

We consider a fourth order nonlinear PDE involving the critical Sobolev exponent on a bounded domain of ℝn, n ≥ 5 with Navier condition on the boundary. We study the lack of compactness of the problem and we provide an existence theorem through a new index formula.

Keywords

Fourth order PDE critical nonlinearity variational problem critical points at infinity 

MR(2010) Subject Classification

35J60 35J65 
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  1. 1.Department of MathematicsKing Abdulaziz UniversityJeddahKingdom of Saudi Arabia

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