Radial solutions for the bilaplacian equation with vanishing or singular radial potentials

Abstract

Given three measurable functions $V\left(r \right)\geq 0$, $K\left(r\right)> 0$ and $Q\left(r \right)\geq 0$, $r>0$, we consider the bilaplacian equation \[ \Delta^2 u+V(|x|)u=K(|x|)f(u)+Q(|x|) \quad \text{in }\,\mathbb{R}^N \] and we find radial solutions thanks to compact embeddings of radial spaces of Sobolev functions into sum of weighted Lebesgue spaces.