On the existence and profile of multi-peaked solutions to singularly perturbed semilinear Dirichlet problems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-236

  Cao, Daomin ^a   Dancer, Norman E ^b   Noussair, Ezzat S ^c   Yan, Shunsen ^d  

^a Wuhan Institute of Medical Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Multi peaked solutions; Semilinear Dirichlet problem; Singular perturbation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001067029     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.1996.2.221     Document Type: Article

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