International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 10, Pages 1525-1537
doi:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.1525

A nonlinear boundary problem involving the p-bilaplacian operator

Abdelouahed El Khalil1 , Siham Kellati2 and Abdelfattah Touzani2

1Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic School of Montreal, Montreal H3C 3A7, QC, Canada
2Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences Dhar-Mahraz, University Sidi Med Ben Abdellah, P.O. Box 1796 Atlas, Fez 30000, Morocco

Abstract

We show some new Sobolev's trace embedding that we apply to prove that the fourth-order nonlinear boundary conditions Δp2u+|u|p2u=0 in Ω and (/n)(|Δu|p2Δu)=λρ|u|p2u on Ω possess at least one nondecreasing sequence of positive eigenvalues.