The index of a critical point for nonlinear elliptic operators with strong coefficient growth

Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-137

  Kartsatos, Athanassios G ^a   Skrypnik, Igor V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Degree theory for densely defined (S+) operators; Densely defined operators of type (S+); Index of an isolated critical point; Non linear elliptic PDE's with strong coefficient growth; Reflexive separable Banach space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001748638     PISSN: 00255645     EISSN: 18811167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2969/jmsj/05210109     Document Type: Article

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