In this paper, we study the existence and nonexistence of nontrivial
solutions to the following critical biharmonic problem with the Steklov
boundary conditions
Δ2=+Δ+||2**-2 in ,
=Δ+=0 on , where ,, ∈ , ⊂ N( ≥ 5) is a
unit ball, 2** = 2/N-4 denotes the critical Sobolev
exponent for the embedding 2() →2**
() and is the outer normal derivative of on . Under
some assumptions on , and , we prove the existence of nontrivial
solutions to the above biharmonic problem by the Mountain pass theorem
and show the nonexistence of nontrivial solutions to it by the Pohozaev
identity.