Multi-interior-spike solutions for the Cahn-Hilliard equation with arbitrarily many peaks

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 249-289

  Wei, Juncheng ^a   Winter, Matthias ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 0010530040     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005260050153     Document Type: Article

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