Existence and bifurcation of solutions for an elliptic degenerate problem

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-25

  Berestycki, Henri ^a   Esteban, Maria J ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

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EID: 0031562002     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1996.3165     Document Type: Article

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