The Liouville-Bratu-Gelfand problem for radial operators

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 283-298

  Jacobsen, Jon ^a   Schmitt, Klaus ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bratu; Gelfand; k Hessian; Liouville; p Laplacian; Radial solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036751359     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.2001.4151     Document Type: Article

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