In this paper we study the biharmonic operator perturbed by an inverse
fourth-order potential. In particular, we consider the operator
A=Δ2−V=Δ2−c∣x∣−4 where c is any constant such that
c<(4N(N−4))2. The semigroup generated by −A in
L2(RN), N≥5, extrapolates to a bounded holomorphic
C0-semigroup on Lp(RN) for p∈[p0′,p0] where
p0=N−42N and p0′ is its dual exponent. Furthermore, we study
the boundedness of the Riesz transform ΔA−1/2 on Lp(RN)
for all p∈(p0′,2]