Existence of solutions to a perturbed critical biharmonic equation with Hardy potential

Abstract: \ In this paper, the following biharmonic elliptic problem \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{cases} \Delta^2u-\lambda\frac{|u|^{q-2}u}{|x|^s}=|u|^{2^{**}-2}u+ f(x,u), &x\in\Omega,\ u=\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial n}=0, &x\in\partial\Omega \end{cases} \end{eqnarray*} is considered. The main feature of the equation is that it involves a Hardy term and a nonlinearity with critical Sobolev exponent. By combining a careful analysis of the fibering maps of the energy functional associated with the problem with the Mountain Pass Lemma, it is shown, for some positive parameter $\lambda$ depending on $s$ and $q$, that the problem admits at least one mountain pass type solution under appropriate growth conditions on the nonlinearity $f(x,u)$.