Deformation from symmetry and multiplicity of solutions in non-homogeneous problems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 267-281

  Chambers, Christine ^a   Ghoussoub, Nassif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical point theory; Elliptic PDEs; Min max method; Multiplicity; Non linear; Perturbation from symmetry; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036002260     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2002.8.267     Document Type: Article

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