## Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

### REMARKS ON THE QUALITATIVE QUESTIONS FOR BIHARMONIC OPERATORS

#### Abstract

In this article, we obtain several remarks on the qualitative questions such as Picone's identity, Morse index and Hardy-Rellich type inequality for biharmonic operators.

#### Article information

Source
Taiwanese J. Math., Volume 19, Number 6 (2015), 1743-1758.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 4 July 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1499133737

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.11650/tjm.19.2015.5566

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3434275

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1357.35009

Subjects
Primary: 35J91: Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly- Laplacian
Secondary: 35B35: Stability

#### Citation

Dwivedi, G.; Tyagi, J. REMARKS ON THE QUALITATIVE QUESTIONS FOR BIHARMONIC OPERATORS. Taiwanese J. Math. 19 (2015), no. 6, 1743--1758. doi:10.11650/tjm.19.2015.5566. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1499133737

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