In this paper we consider the following biharmonic equation with critical exponent $P_ε$ : $Δ^2 u= Ku^{(n+4)/(n-4)-ε}, u>0$ in $Ω$ and $u=Δu=0$ on $\partialΩ$, where $Ω$ is a domain in $R^n$, $n\geq 5$, $ε$ is a small positive parameter and $K$ is smooth positive function. We construct solutions of $P_ε$ which blow up and concentrate at strict local maximum of $K$ either at the boundary or in the interior of $Ω$. We also construct solutions of $P_ε$ concentrating at an interior strict local minimum of $K$. Finally, we prove a nonexistense result for the corresponding supercritical problem which is in sharp contrast with what happened for $P_ε$.
We study the biharmonic equation $Δ^2 u =u^{-α}$, $0<α<1$, in a smooth and bounded domain $Ω\subset\RR^n$, $n\geq 2$, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under some suitable assumptions on $ø$ related to the positivity of the Green function for the biharmonic operator, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution.
We consider positive solutions $u$ of the semilinear biharmonic equation $Δ^2 u = |x|^{-\frac{n+4}{2}} g(|x|^\frac{n-4}{2} u)$ in $\mathbb R^n \setminus \{0\}$ with non-removable singularities at the origin. Under natural assumptions on the nonlinearity $g$, we show that $|x|^\frac{n-4}{2} u$ is a periodic function of $\ln |x|$ and we classify all such solutions.
We study the following semilinear biharmonic equation $$ \left\{\begin{array}{lllllll} Δ^{2}u=\fracλ{1-u}, &\quad \mbox{in}\quad \B, u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0, &\quad \mbox{on}\quad \partial\B, \end{array} \right. %\eqno(M_λ) $$ where $\B$ is the unit ball in $\R^{n}$ and $n$ is the exterior unit normal vector. We prove the existence of $λ^{*}>0$ such that for $λ\in (0,λ^{*})$ there exists a minimal (classical) solution $\underline{u}_λ$, which satisfies $0<\underline{u}_λ<1$. In the extremal case $λ=λ^{*}$, we prove the existence of a weak solution which is unique solution even in a v…
We consider the following problem: \begin{eqnarray*} ( P)\qquad \displaystyle\left\{\begin{array} {ll} & Δ^2 u = K(x)u^{-α} \quad \mbox{ in }\,Ω, \\ &u> 0\quad \mbox{ in }\,Ω, \;\;u\vert_{\partialΩ}=0, \,Δu\vert_{\partialΩ} = 0. \end{array}\right. \end{eqnarray*} We prove the main existence result: Assume that $α+β<2$. Then there exists a unique solution $u$ to $(P)$. Furthermore, there exist $c_1, c_2>0$ such that \begin{eqnarray}\label{behaviour-bound} c_1 ρ(x)\leq u(x)\leq c_2 ρ(x) \end{eqnarray} where $ρ(x)=d(x,\partialΩ)$. This result is sharp: Assume that $α+β\geq 2$. Then, there is no s…
Let $λ^{*}>0$ denote the largest possible value of $λ$ such that $$ \{{array}{lllllll} Δ^{2}u=λ(1+u)^{p} & {in}\ \ \B, %0<u\leq 1 & {in}\ \ \B, u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial n} =0 & {on}\ \ \partial \B {array}. $$ has a solution, where $\B$ is the unit ball in $R^{n}$ centered at the origin, $p>\frac{n+4}{n-4}$ and $n$ is the exterior unit normal vector. We show that for $λ=λ^{*}$ this problem possesses a unique weak solution $u^{*}$, called the extremal solution. We prove that $u^{*}$ is singular when $n\geq 13$ for $p$ large enough, in which case $u^{*}(x)\leq r^{-\frac{4}{p-1}}-1$ on the uni…
In this paper we prove local well-posedness in Orlicz spaces for the biharmonic heat equation $\partial_{t} u+ Δ^2 u=f(u),\;t>0,\;x\in\R^N,$ with $f(u)\sim \mbox{e}^{u^2}$ for large $u.$ Under smallness condition on the initial data and for exponential nonlinearity $f$ such that $f(u)\sim u^m$ as $u\to 0,$ $m$ integer and $N(m-1)/4\geq 2$, we show that the solution is global. Moreover, we obtain a decay estimates for large time for the nonlinear biharmonic heat equation as well as for the nonlinear heat equation. Our results extend to the nonlinear polyharmonic heat equation.
In this work we study the nonnegative solutions of the elliptic system Δu=|x|^{a}v^δ, Δv=|x|^{b}u^μ in the superlinear case μδ>1, which blow up near the boundary of a domain of R^{N}, or at one isolated point. In the radial case we give the precise behavior of the large solutions near the boundary in any dimension N. We also show the existence of infinitely many solutions blowing up at 0. Furthermore, we show that there exists a global positive solution in R^{N}\{0}, large at 0, and we describe its behavior. We apply the results to the sign changing solutions of the biharmonic equation Δ^2 u=|…
We study the existence of nontrivial weak solutions for a class of generalized $p(x)$-biharmonic equations with singular nonlinearity and Navier boundary condition. The proofs combine variational and topological arguments. The approach developed in this paper allows for the treatment of several classes of singular biharmonic problems with variable growth arising in applied sciences, including the capillarity equation and the mean curvature problem.
\ In this paper, the following biharmonic elliptic problem \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} Δ^2u-λ\frac{|u|^{q-2}u}{|x|^s}=|u|^{2^{**}-2}u+ f(x,u), &x\inΩ,\\ u=\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0, &x\in\partialΩ\end{cases} \end{eqnarray*} is considered. The main feature of the equation is that it involves a Hardy term and a nonlinearity with critical Sobolev exponent. By combining a careful analysis of the fibering maps of the energy functional associated with the problem with the Mountain Pass Lemma, it is shown, for some positive parameter $λ$ depending on $s$ and $q$, that the problem admits at…
The biharmonic supercritical equation $Δ^2u=|u|^{p-1}u$, where $n>4$ and $p>(n+4)/(n-4)$, is studied in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$ as well as in a modified form with $λ(1+u)^p$ as right-hand-side with an additional eigenvalue parameter $λ>0$ in the unit ball, in the latter case together with Dirichlet boundary conditions. As for entire regular radial solutions we prove oscillatory behaviour around the explicitly known radial {\it singular} solution, provided $p\in((n+4)/(n-4),p_c)$, where $p_c\in ((n+4)/(n-4),\infty]$ is a further critical exponent, which was introduced in a recent work by…
In this paper, we investigate the semilinear equation with a time-space fractional structural damping and a nonlocal in time nonlinearity \begin{equation*} {\mathbf{D}}_{0|t}^{1+α_1}u + (-Δ)^σu+(-Δ)^δ\mathbf{D}_{0|t}^{α_2} u = I_{0|t}^{1-γ}|u|^{p}, \qquad (t,x)\in (0,\infty) \times \mathbb{R}^N, \end{equation*} where $p>1$, $α_i, γ in (0,1)$, $δ, σ\in (0,1)$, ${\mathbf{D}}_{0|t}^{α_i}$ is the Caputo fractional derivative and $I_{0|t}^{1-γ}$ is the Riemann-Liouville fractional integral of order $1-γ$. We prove the non-existence of global solutions if \begin{equation*} 1<p\leqslant \frac{2(2+α_1…
We present new singular solutions of the biharmonic nonlinear Schrodinger equation in dimension d and nonlinearity exponent 2σ+1. These solutions collapse with the quasi self-similar ring profile, with ring width L(t) that vanishes at singularity, and radius proportional to L^α, where α=(4-σ)/(σ(d-1)). The blowup rate of these solutions is 1/(3+α) for 4/d\leσ<4, and slightly faster than 1/4 for σ=4. These solutions are analogous to the ring-type solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
In this paper, we deal with the logarithmic weighted fourth order elliptic equation in the unit disk of $B\subset\R^{4}$: $$\displaystyle(P_λ)~~Δ(w(x) Δu) = λ f(x,u) \quad\mbox{ in }\quad B, \quad u=\frac{\partial u}{\partial n} \quad\mbox{ on } \quad\partial B,$$ where the nonlinearity $f$ is assumed to have exponential critical growth in view of Adam's type inequalities. By using the constrained minimization in Nehari set combined with the quantitative deformation lemma and degree theory, we prove the existence of nodal solutions to the problem $(P_λ)$ .
In this paper, we study the following biharmonic Choquard type equation \begin{align*} \begin{split} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} γΔ^2u-βΔu=λu+(I_μ*F(u))f(u), \quad\mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^4, \displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}|u|^2dx=c^2>0,\quad u\in H^2(\mathbb{R}^4), \end{array} \right. \end{split} \end{align*} where $γ>0$, $β\geq0$, $λ\in \mathbb{R}$, $I_μ=\frac{1}{|x|^μ}$ with $μ\in (0,4)$, $F(u)$ is the primitive function of $f(u)$, and $f$ is a continuous function with exponential critical growth. We can prove the existence of ground state normalized solutions for the above problem when the no…
We consider the focusing inhomogeneous biharmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in $H^2(\mathbb{R}^N)$, \begin{equation} iu_t + Δ^2 u - |x|^{-b}|u|^αu=0 \end{equation} when $b > 0$ and $N \geq 5$. We first obtain a small data global result in $H^2$, which, in the five-dimensional case, improves a previous result from Pastor and the second author. In the sequel, we show the main result, scattering below the mass-energy threshold in the intercritical case, that is, $\frac{8-2b}{N} < α<\frac{8-2b}{N-4}$, without assuming radiality of the initial data. The proof combines the decay of the nonlinea…
The goal of this paper is to establish singular Adams type inequality for biharmonic operator on Heisenberg group. As an application, we establish the existence of a solution to \begin{equation*} Δ_{\mathbb{H}^n}^2 u=\frac{f(ξ,u)}{ρ(ξ)^a}\,\,\text{ in }Ω,\,\, u|_{\partialΩ}=0=\left.\frac{\partial u}{\partial ν}\right|_{\partialΩ}, \end{equation*} where $0\in Ω\subseteq \mathbb{H}^4$ is a smooth bounded domain, $0\leq a<Q,\,(Q=10).$ The special feature of this problem is that it contains an exponential nonlinearity and singular potential.
We study the local and global wellposedness of the initial-boundary value problem for the biharmonic Schrödinger equation on the half-line with inhomogeneous Dirichlet-Neumann boundary data. First, we obtain a representation formula for the solution of the linear nonhomogenenous problem by using the Fokas method (also known as the \emph{unified transform method}). We use this representation formula to prove space and time estimates on the solutions of the linear model in fractional Sobolev spaces by using Fourier analysis. Secondly, we consider the nonlinear model with a power type nonlinearit…
We consider a class of biharmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equations with a focusing inhomogeneous power-type nonlinearity \[ i\partial_t u -Δ^2 u+μΔu +|x|^{-b} |u|^αu=0, \quad \left. u\right|_{t=0}=u_0 \in H^2(\mathbb{R}^d) \] with $d\geq 1, μ\geq 0$, $0<b<\min\{d,4\}$, $α>0$, and $α<\frac{8-2b}{d-4}$ if $d\geq 5$. We first determine a region in which solutions to the equation exist globally in time. We then show that these global-in-time solutions scatter in $H^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ in three and higher dimensions. In the case of no harmonic perturbation, i.e., $μ=0$, our result extends the energy sc…
In this paper, we investigate the pointwise time analyticity of three differential equations. They are the biharmonic heat equation, the heat equation with potentials and some nonlinear heat equations with power nonlinearity of order $p$. The potentials include all the nonnegative ones. For the first two equations, we prove if $u$ satisfies some growth conditions in $(x,t)\in \mathrm{M}\times [0,1]$, then $u$ is analytic in time $(0,1]$. Here $\mathrm{M}$ is $R^d$ or a complete noncompact manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below by a constant. Then we obtain a necessary and sufficient …
In this work, we investigate the IVP for a time-fractional fourth-order equation with nonlinear source terms. More specifically, we consider the time-fractional biharmonic with exponential nonlinearity and the time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation. By using the Fourier transform concept, the generalized formula for the mild solution as well as the smoothing effects of resolvent operators are proved. For the IVP associated with the first one, by using the Orlicz space with the function $ Ξ(z)=e^{|z|^p}-1$ and some embeddings between it and the usual Lebesgue spaces, we prove that the solution …
We investigate the Cauchy problem for the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation $i \partial_t u + Δu = - |x|^b |u|^{p-1} u$ in the radial Sobolev space $H^1_{\text{rad}}(\mathbb{R}^N)$, where $b>0$ and $p>1$. We show the global existence and energy scattering in the inter-critical regime, i.e., $p>\frac{N+4+2b}{N}$ and $p<\frac{N+2+2b}{N-2}$ if $N\geq 3$. We also obtain blowing-up solutions for the mass-critical and mass-supercritical nonlinearities. The main difficulty, coming from the spatial growing nonlinearity, is overcome by refined Gagliardo-Nirenberg type inequalities. …
We present a notion of weak solution for the Dirichlet problem driven by the fractional Laplacian, following the Stampacchia theory. Then, we study semilinear problems on bounded domains $Ω$ with two different boundary conditions at the same time: the shape of the solution outside $Ω$ and a weighted limit to the boundary. We allow the nonlinearity to be positive or negative and we look for solutions blowing up at the boundary. Our starting observation is the existence of s-harmonic functions which explode at the boundary: these will be used both as supersolutions in the case of negative nonlin…
In this paper, we consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the super critical power of nonlinearity in the attractive case. We give a sufficient condition and a necessary condition to obtain global or blowing up solutions. These conditions coincide in the critical case, thereby extending the results of Weinstein. Furthermore, we improve a blow-up condition.
We prove the decay in the energy space for the solution to the defocusing biharmonic Hartree-Fock equations with mass-supercritical and energy-subcritical Choquard-type nonlinearity in space dimension $d\geq3$. We treat both the free and the perturbed by a potential case. As a direct consequence, we obtain large-data scattering in $H^2(\mathbb R^d)^N, \, N\geq 1$.
We consider the semilinear heat equation with a superlinear power nonlinearity in the Sobolev subcritical range. We construct a solution which blows up in finite time only at the origin, with a completely new blow-up profile, which is cross-shaped. Our method is general and extends to the construction of other solutions blowing up only at the origin, with a large variety of blow-up profiles, degenerate or not.
We consider a two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with concentrated nonlinearity. In both the focusing and defocusing case we prove local well-posedness, i.e., existence and uniqueness of the solution for short times, as well as energy and mass conservation. In addition, we prove that this implies global existence in the defocusing case, irrespective of the power of the nonlinearity, while in the focusing case blowing-up solutions may arise.
We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\fλ{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary conditions $u=\partial_νu=0$ on $\partial B$. We complete here the results of F.H. Lin and Y.S. Yang \cite{LY} regarding the identification of a "pull-in voltage" $\la^*>0$ such that a stable classical solution $u_\la$ with $0<u_\la<1$ exists for $\la\in (0,\la^*)$, while there is none of any kind when $\la>\la^*$. Our main result asserts that the extremal solution $u_{…
We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\fλ{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary conditions $u=\partial_νu=0$ on $\partial B$. We complete here the results of F.H. Lin and Y.S. Yang \cite{LY} regarding the identification of a "pull-in voltage" $\la^*>0$ such that a stable classical solution $u_\la$ with $0<u_\la<1$ exists for $\la\in (0,\la^*)$, while there is none of any kind when $\la>\la^*$. Our main result asserts that the extremal solution $u_{…
The necessary and sufficient conditions for a regular positive entire solution $u$ of the biharmonic equation: \begin{equation} \label{0.1} -Δ^2 u=u^{-p} \;\; \mbox{in $\R^N \; (N \geq 3)$}, \;\; p>1 \end{equation} to be a radially symmetric solution are obtained via the moving plane method (MPM) of a system of equations. It is well-known that for any $a>0$, \eqref{0.1} admits a unique minimal positive entire radial solution ${\underline u}_a (r)$ and a family of non-minimal positive entire radial solutions $u_a (r)$ such that $u_a (0)={\underline u}_a (0)=a$ and $u_a (r) \geq {\underline u}_a…
We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with combined nonlinearities, where the leading term is an intracritical focusing power-type nonlinearity, and the perturbation is given by a power-type defocusing one. We completely answer the question wether the ground state energy, which is a threshold between global existence and formation of singularities, is achieved. For any prescribed mass, for mass-supercritical or mass-critical defocusing perturbations, the ground state energy is achieved by a radially symmetric and decreasing solution to the associated stationary equation. For mass-subc…
It was shown by the second author in (CPAA, 2019) for the biharmonic Schrödinger equation and most recently by Himonas and Mantzavinos (Nonlinearity, 2020) for 2D Schrödinger equation that Fokas method based formulas are capable of defining weak solutions of associated nonlinear initial boundary value problems (ibvps) below the Banach algebra threshold. In view of these results, we revisit the theory of interior-boundary Strichartz estimates for the Schrödinger equation posed on the right half line, considering both Dirichlet and Neumann cases. Finally, we apply these estimates to obtain low r…
