A note on a class of higher order conformally covariant equations

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 275-281

  Chang, Sun Yung Alice ^a   Chen, Wenxiong ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformally covariant equations; Higher order semilinear elliptic equations; Non uniqueness; Variational method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035644954     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2001.7.275     Document Type: Article

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