Multiplicity of positive radial solutions of a quasilinear elliptic problem in a ball

Advances in Differential Equations

Volumn 5, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1545-1570

  Njoku, Franic Ikechukwu ^a   Omari, Pierpaolo ^b   Zanolin, Fabio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

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