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Contents<br />

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v<br />

Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi<br />

1 Models of higher order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1 Classical <strong>problems</strong> from elasticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1.1 The static loading of a slender beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.1.2 The Kirchhoff-Love model for a thin plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.1.3 Decomposition into second order systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.2 The Boggio-Hadamard conjecture for a clamped plate . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

1.3 The first eigen<strong>value</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.3.1 The Dirichlet eigen<strong>value</strong> problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

1.3.2 An eigen<strong>value</strong> problem for a buckled plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

1.3.3 A Steklov eigen<strong>value</strong> problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

1.4 Paradoxes for the hinged plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.4.1 Sapondˇzyan’s paradox by concave corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.4.2 The Babuˇska paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

1.5 Paneitz-Branson type equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

1.6 Critical growth polyharmonic model <strong>problems</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

1.7 Qualitative properties of solutions to semilinear <strong>problems</strong> . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

1.8 Willmore surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

2 Linear <strong>problems</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />

2.1 <strong>Polyharmonic</strong> operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25<br />

2.2 Higher order Sobolev spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

2.2.1 Definitions and basic properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />

2.2.2 Embedding theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

2.3 Boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

2.4 Hilbert space theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

2.4.1 Normal <strong>boundary</strong> conditions and Green’s formula . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

2.4.2 Homogeneous <strong>boundary</strong> <strong>value</strong> <strong>problems</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

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