On a nonlocal elliptic equation with decreasing nonlinearity arising in plasma physics and heat conduction

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-115

  Carrillo, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Maximum principle; Nonlocal elliptic equations; Rearrangement; Sub supersolutions

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; HEAT CONDUCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PLASMAS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

DIRICHLET BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; NONLOCAL ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032013321     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00455-0     Document Type: Article

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