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Concentration phenomena to a higher order Liouville equation

We study blow-up and quantization phenomena for a sequence of solutions $(u_k)$ to the prescribed $Q$-curvature problem $$ (-Δ)^nu_k= Q_ke^{2nu_k}\quad \text{in }Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^{2n},\quad \int_Ωe^{2nu_k}dx\leq C,$$ under natural assumptions on $Q_k$. It is well-known that, up to a subsequence, either $(u_k)$ is bounded in a suitable norm, or there exists $β_k\to\infty$ such that $ u_k=β_k(φ+o(1))$ in $Ω\setminus (S_1\cup S_φ)$ for some non-trivial non-positive $n$-harmonic function $φ$ and for a finite set $S_1$, where $S_φ$ is the zero set of $φ$. We prove quantization of the total curvature $\int_{\tildeΩ}Q_ke^{2nu_k}dx$ on the region $\tildeΩ\Subset(Ω\setminus S_φ)$. We also consider a non-local case in dimension three.