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Title Entire solutions of polyharmonic equations with superlinear but subcritical growth

Name Paul G Schmidt
Country USA
Email pgs@auburn.edu
Co-Author(s) M. Lazzo
Submit Time 2014-02-26 21:35:01
Session
Special Session 40: Qualitative aspects of linear and nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems
Contents
Much of the literature on entire solutions for semilinear elliptic equations with superlinear growth focuses on positive solutions (or "ground states"). Typically, positive entire solutions do not exist if the growth of the nonlinearity is subcritical in a certain sense. A natural question, then, is whether there are sign-changing entire solutions in such cases. We will present recent and ongoing work on the existence, uniqueness up to scaling and symmetry, and asymptotic behavior of oscillatory entire radial solutions for a subcritical biharmonic equation with power nonlinearity and discuss possible generalizations to the polyharmonic case.