Existence of Many Nonequivalent Nonradial Positive Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations on Three-Dimensional Annuli

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 136-165

  Byeon, Jaeyoung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 0001490475     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1996.3241     Document Type: Article

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