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On Delaunay solutions of a biharmonic elliptic equation with critical exponent

Analysis of PDEs 2017-08-17 v1

Abstract

We are interested in the qualitative properties of positive entire solutions uC4(Rn\{0})u \in C^4 (\mathbb{R}^n \backslash \{0\}) of the equation \begin{equation} \label{0.0} \Delta^2 u=u^{\frac{n+4}{n-4}} \;\;\mbox{in Rn\{0}\mathbb{R}^n \backslash \{0\} and 0 is a non-removable singularity of u(x)u(x)}. \end{equation} It is known from [Theorem 4.2] that any positive entire solution uu of \eqref{0.0} is radially symmetric with respect to x=0x=0, i.e. u(x)=u(x)u(x)=u(|x|), and equation \eqref{0.0} also admits a special positive entire solution us(x)=(n2(n4)216)n48xn42u_s (x)=\Big(\frac{n^2 (n-4)^2}{16} \Big)^{\frac{n-4}{8}} |x|^{-\frac{n-4}{2}}. We first show that uusu-u_s changes signs infinitely many times in (0,)(0, \infty) for any positive singular entire solution u≢usu \not \equiv u_s in RN\{0}\mathbb{R}^N \backslash \{0\} of \eqref{0.0}. Moreover, equation \eqref{0.0} admits a positive entire singular solution u(x)  (=u(x)u(x) \; (=u(|x|) such that the scalar curvature of the conformal metric with conformal factor u4n4u^{\frac{4}{n-4}} is positive and v(t):=en42tu(et)v(t):=e^{\frac{n-4}{2} t} u(e^t) is 2T2T-periodic with suitably large TT. It is still open that v(t):=en42tu(et)v(t):=e^{\frac{n-4}{2} t} u(e^t) is periodic for any positive entire solution u(x)u(x) of \eqref{0.0}.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04660,
  title  = {On Delaunay solutions of a biharmonic elliptic equation with critical exponent},
  author = {Zongming Guo and Xia Huang and Liping Wang and Juncheng Wei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04660},
  year   = {2017}
}

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