Non-existence results for semilinear cooperative elliptic systems via moving spheres

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 219-243

  Reichel, Wolfgang ^a   Zou, Henghui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

cooperative systems; Kelvin transform; maximum principles; moving spheres; non existence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034628166     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1999.3700     Document Type: Article

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