On a fourth order elliptic equation with critical nonlinearity in dimension six Original Research Article

This paper is devoted to the study of the following nonlinear elliptic problem: Δ2u=Ku5Δ2u=Ku5, u>0u>0 in ΩΩ, u=Δu=0u=Δu=0 on ∂Ω∂Ω, where K is a positive function and ΩΩ is a bounded and smooth domain in R6R6. We prove a version of Morse Lemma at infinity for this problem. Using this Morse Lemma at infinity, we characterize the critical points at infinity of the associated functional and we give an existence result.