Semilinear neumann boundary value problems on a rectangle

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 354, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3117-3154

  Shi, Junping ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behavior of solutions; Global bifurcation diagrams; Secondary bifurcations; Semilinear elliptic equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036701115     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03007-6     Document Type: Article

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