Fast blow-up mechanisms for sign-changing solutions of a semilinear parabolic equation with critical nonlinearity

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 456, Issue 2004, 2000, Pages 2957-2982

  Filippas, Stathis ^a   Herrero, Miguel A ^b   Velazquez, Juan J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blow up; Critical exponents; Matched asymptotic expansions; Semilinear heat equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011234286     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2000.0648     Document Type: Article

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