Existence of radial solutions to biharmonic $k-$Hessian equations

Abstract

This work presents the construction of the existence theory of radial solutions to the elliptic equation \begin{equation}\nonumber Δ^2 u = (-1)^k S_k[u] + λf(x), \qquad x \in B_1(0) \subset \mathbb{R}^N, \end{equation} provided either with Dirichlet boundary conditions \begin{eqnarray}\nonumber u = \partial_n u = 0, \qquad x \in \partial B_1(0), \end{eqnarray} or Navier boundary conditions \begin{equation}\nonumber u = Δu = 0, \qquad x \in \partial B_1(0), \end{equation} where the $k-$Hessian $S_k[u]$ is the $k^{\mathrm{th}}$ elementary symmetric polynomial of eigenvalues of the Hessian matrix and the datum $f \in L^1(B_1(0))$ while $λ\in \mathbb{R}$. We prove the existence of a Carathéodory solution to these boundary value problems that is unique in a certain neighborhood of the origin provided $|λ|$ is small enough. Moreover, we prove that the solvability set of $λ$ is finite, giving an explicity bound of the extreme value.