Exact multiplicity and S-shaped bifurcation curve for some semilinear elliptic problems from combustion theory

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 707-733

  Du, Yihong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Combustion; Perturbed Gelfand equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034353707     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141098343586     Document Type: Article

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