Existence of positive solutions for a class of indefinite elliptic problems in ℝN

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 159-189

  Costa, D G ^a   Tehrani, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 0038102021     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00009927     Document Type: Article

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