On the multiplicity of solutions of two nonlocal variational problems

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 909-924

  Ren, Xiaofeng ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

BV functions; Isolated local minima; Nonlocal variational problems; P convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034347328     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141098348176     Document Type: Article

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