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In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of least energy nodal solutions $u_p(x)$ to the following fourth-order elliptic problem \[ \begin{cases} \Delta^2 u =|u|^{p-1}u \quad &\hbox{in}\;\Omega, \\ u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial \nu}=0…
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