Existence results for some fourth-order nonlinear elliptic problems of local superlinearity and sublinearity

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 281, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 633-640

  Xu, Guixiang ^a   Zhang, Jihui ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biharmonic operator; Positive solutions; Sublinear; Superlinear; Suspension bridge; Variational method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038687768     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-247X(03)00170-7     Document Type: Article

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