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This research work investigates the existence, uniqueness, and stability of solution for a time-fractional fourth-order partial differential equation, subject to two initial conditions and four nonlocal integral boundary conditions. The equation incorporates several key components: the Caputo fractional derivative operator, the Laplace operator, the biharmonic operator, as well as terms representing frictional and viscoelastic damping. The presence of these elements, particularly the nonlocal boundary constraints, introduces new mathematical challenges that require the development of advanced analytical methods. To address these challenges, we construct a functional analytic framework based on Sobolev spaces and employ energy estimates to rigorously prove the well-posedness of the problem. Full article

This study develops a rigorous analytic framework for solving the Cauchy problem of polyharmonic equations in ${\mathbb{R}}^{\mathrm{n}}$, highlighting the crucial role of symmetry in the structure, stability, and solvability of solutions. Polyharmonic equations, as higher-order extensions of Laplace and biharmonic equations, frequently arise in elasticity, potential theory, and mathematical physics, yet their Cauchy problems are inherently ill-posed. Using hyperspherical harmonics and homogeneous harmonic polynomials, whose orthogonality reflects the underlying rotational and reflectional symmetries, the study constructs explicit, uniformly convergent series solutions. Through analytic continuation of integral representations, necessary and sufficient solvability criteria are established, ensuring convergence of all derivatives on compact domains. Furthermore, newly derived Green-type identities provide a systematic method to reconstruct boundary information and enforce stability constraints. This approach not only generalizes classical Laplace and biharmonic results to higher-order polyharmonic equations but also demonstrates how symmetry governs boundary data admissibility, convergence, and analytic structure, offering both theoretical insights and practical tools for elasticity, inverse problems, and mathematical physics. Full article

In this paper, we study biharmonic identity maps between Euclidean spaces and warped product spaces of the form ${\mathbb{R}}^r{\times }_{f^2}{\mathbb{R}}^{n-r}$. Our main results characterize both orientations of the identity map in terms of partial differential equations: For the map from Euclidean space to the warped space, biharmonicity is equivalent to the warping function satisfying a stationary Hamilton–Jacobi-type equation. While the only global solution is constant, we construct infinitely many explicit local solutions. Conversely, for the map from the warped space to Euclidean space, biharmonicity corresponds to a logarithmic transformation of the warping function satisfying this same PDE. This equation admits abundant explicit nonconstant global solutions and can be reduced to a Liouville-type equation via a suitable transformation. Full article

We consider the fourth-order PDE $u_{xxxx}+2u_{xxyy}+u_{yyyy}-u_{tt}=h\left(u\right)$. The Lie and Noether symmetry generators are constructed, and we reduce the PDE to simpler ODEs. Furthermore, we use some well-known methods to compute the conserved vectors associated with the PDE. An analysis of reduced ordinary differential equations (ODEs), invariant solutions, and their physical interpretations is presented. Full article

In this work, we study a nonlinear system of p-Biharmonic hyperbolic equations with degenerate damping and source terms in a bounded domain. Under appropriate assumptions on the initial data and the damping terms, we establish the global existence of solutions. Furthermore, we derive a general decay result, and finally, we prove the occurrence of blow-up for solutions with negative initial energy. Full article

We establish global decay and scattering in the energy space $H^2\left({\mathbb{R}}^d\right)$, for $d\ge 5$, of radial solutions to the damped nonlinear biharmonic Schrödinger equation with general complex-valued, time-dependent damping coefficients. Assuming radial data exploits $O\left(d\right)$-symmetry and strengthens Morawetz-type controls through spherical averaging, we introduce new Morawetz-type identities and localized inequalities adapted to the fourth-order dispersive flow and compatible with this symmetry. As a consequence, and under explicit conditions for the damping coefficients that include slowly decaying or oscillatory profiles, we prove that solutions decay in Lebesgue norms and scatter to free biharmonic evolutions. Full article

This study delves into the spatial characteristics of solutions for a specific class of evolution equations that incorporate biharmonic operators. The process begins with the construction of an energy function. Subsequently, by employing an integro-differential inequality method, it is deduced that this energy function satisfies an integro-differential inequality. Resolving this inequality enables us to establish an estimate for the spatial decay of the solution. Ultimately, the finding affirms that the spatial exponential decay is reminiscent of Saint-Venant-type estimates. Full article

The Navier equations are reformulated to be third-order partial differential equations. New anti-Cauchy-Riemann equations can express a general solution in 2D space for incompressible materials. Based on the third-order solutions in 3D space and the Boussinesq–Galerkin method, a third-order method of fundamental solutions (MFS) is developed. For the 3D Navier equation in linear elasticity, we present three new general solutions, which have appeared in the literature for the first time, to signify the theoretical contributions of the present paper. The first one is in terms of a biharmonic function and a harmonic function. The completeness of the proposed general solution is proven by using the solvability conditions of the equations obtained by equating the proposed general solution to the Boussinesq–Galerkin solution. The second general solution is expressed in terms of a harmonic vector, which is simpler than the Slobodianskii general solution, and the traditional MFS. The main achievement is that the general solution is complete, and the number of harmonic functions, three, is minimal. The third general solution is presented by a harmonic vector and a biharmonic vector, which are subjected to a constraint equation. We derive a specific solution by setting the two vectors in the third general solution as the vectorizations of a single harmonic potential. Hence, we have a simple approach to the Slobodianskii general solution. The applications of the new solutions are demonstrated. Owing to the minimality of the harmonic functions, the resulting bases generated from the new general solution are complete and linearly independent. Numerical instability can be avoided by using the new bases. To explore the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed MFS variant methods, some examples are tested. Full article

This paper mainly studies the existence of sign-changing solutions for the following $p\left(x\right)$-biharmonic Kirchhoff-type equations: $-\left(a+b{\int }_{{\mathbb{R}}^N}{\displaystyle \frac{1}{p\left(x\right)}}{|\Delta u|}^{p\left(x\right)}\mathrm{d}x\right){\Delta }_{p\left(x\right)}^{2}u+V\left(x\right){|u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}u$ = $K\left(x\right)f\left(u\right),x\in {\mathbb{R}}^N$, where ${\Delta }_{p\left(x\right)}^{2}u=\Delta \left({|\Delta u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}\Delta u\right)$ is the $p\left(x\right)$ biharmonic operator, $a,b>0$ are constants, $N\ge 2$, $V\left(x\right),K\left(x\right)$ are positive continuous functions which vanish at infinity, and the nonlinearity f has subcritical growth. Using the Nehari manifold method, deformation lemma, and other techniques of analysis, it is demonstrated that there are precisely two nodal domains in the problem’s least energy sign-changing solution $u_b$. In addition, the convergence property of $u_b$ as $b\to 0$ is also established. Full article

The objective of this work is to investigate the global existence, general decay and blow-up results for a class of p-Biharmonic-type hyperbolic equations with delay and acoustic boundary conditions. The global existence of solutions has been obtained by potential well theory and the general decay result of energy has been established, in which the exponential decay and polynomial decay are only special cases, by using the multiplier techniques combined with a nonlinear integral inequality given by Komornik. Finally, the blow-up of solutions is established with positive initial energy. To our knowledge, the global existence, general decay, and blow-up result of solutions to p-Biharmonic-type hyperbolic equations with delay and acoustic boundary conditions has not been studied. Full article

In this paper, we consider whether the zero extension of a solution to the Dirichlet problem for the biharmonic equation in a smaller domain remains a solution to the corresponding extended problem in a larger domain. We analyze classical and strong solutions, and present a necessary and sufficient condition under each framework, respectively. Full article

In this paper, based on a new representation of the Green’s function of the Navier problem for the 3-harmonic equation in the unit ball, an integral representation of the solution of the corresponding Navier problem is found. Then, for the Navier problem for a homogeneous 3-harmonic equation, the obtained representation of the solution is reduced to a form that does not explicitly contain the Green’s function. Full article

The study of biharmonic submanifolds in Euclidean spaces was introduced in the middle of the 1980s by the author in his program studying finite-type submanifolds. He defined biharmonic submanifolds in Euclidean spaces as submanifolds whose position vector field (x) satisfies the biharmonic equation, i.e., ${\Delta }^{2}x=0$. A well-known conjecture proposed by the author in 1991 on biharmonic submanifolds states that every biharmonic submanifold of a Euclidean space is minimal, well known today as Chen’s biharmonic conjecture. On the other hand, independently, G.-Y. Jiang investigated biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds as the critical points of the bi-energy functional. In 2002, R. Caddeo, S. Montaldo, and C. Oniciuc pointed out that both definitions of biharmonicity of the author and G.-Y. Jiang coincide for the class of Euclidean submanifolds. Since then, the study of biharmonic submanifolds and biharmonic maps has attracted many researchers, and many interesting results have been achieved. A comprehensive survey of important results on this conjecture and on many related topics was presented by Y.-L. Ou and B.-Y. Chen in their 2020 book. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed survey of recent developments in those subjects after the publication of Ou and Chen’s book. Full article

In this article, we consider the singular $p$-biharmonic problem involving Hardy potential and critical Hardy–Sobolev exponent. Firstly, we study the existence of ground state solutions by using the minimization method on the associated Nehari manifold. Then, we investigate the least-energy sign-changing solutions by considering the Nehari nodal set. In both cases, the critical Sobolev exponent is of great importance as the solutions exists only if we are below the critical Sobolev exponent. Full article

This paper discusses the existence of positive radial symmetric solutions of the nonlinear biharmonic equation ${▵}^{2}u=f(u,▵u)$ on an annular domain $\Omega$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ with the Navier boundary conditions ${u|}_{\partial \Omega }=0$ and ${▵u|}_{\partial \Omega }=0$, where $f:{\mathbb{R}}^{+}\times {\mathbb{R}}^{-}\to {\mathbb{R}}^{+}$ is a continuous function. We present some some inequality conditions of f to obtain the existence results of positive radial symmetric solutions. These inequality conditions allow $f(\xi ,\eta )$ to have superlinear or sublinear growth on $\xi ,\eta$ as $\left|\right(\xi ,\eta \left)\right|\to 0$ and ∞. Our discussion is mainly based on the fixed-point index theory in cones. Full article