On the existence of multipeaked solutions to a semilinear neumann problem

Duke Mathematical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 261-300

  Cao, Daomin ^a   Küpper, Tassilo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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EID: 0005544407     PISSN: 00127094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/S0012-7094-99-09712-0     Document Type: Article

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