On the triharmonic Lane-Emden equation

Abstract

We derive a monotonicity formula and classify finite Morse index solutions (positive or sign-changing, radial or not) to the following triharmonic Lane-Emden equation: \begin{equation}\nonumber (-\Delta)^3 u=|u|^{p-1}u \hbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^n, \end{equation} where $p$ is below the Joseph-Lundgren exponent. As a byproduct we also obtain a new monotonicity formula for the triharmonic maps.