Finiteness and Positivity Results for Global Minimizers of a Semilinear Elliptic Problem

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 212-229

  Canarius, Thomas ^a   Schätzle, Reiner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global minimizer; gamma convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000388029     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1998.3457     Document Type: Article

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