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In this paper, we establish \(L^{\infty }\) and \(L^{p}\) estimates for solutions of some polyharmonic elliptic equations via the Morse index. As far as we know, it seems to be the first time that such explicit estimates are obtained for polyharmonic problems.
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Mtiri, F., Harrabi, A. & Ye, D. Explicit \(L^{\infty }\)-norm estimates via Morse index for the bi-harmonic and tri-harmonic semilinear problems. manuscripta math. 159, 57–79 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-018-1037-9
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