Exact multiplicity theorem involving concave-convex nonlinearities and its application to stationary solutions of a singular diffusion problem

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 469-486

  Wang, Shin Hwa ^a   Long, Dau Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; POLYNOMIALS; THEOREM PROVING;

POLYNOMIAL NONLINEARITIES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0035313750     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(99)00272-2     Document Type: Article

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