Partial symmetry and asymptotic behavior for some elliptic variational problems

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-75

  Smets, Didier ^a   Willem, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0141685647     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-002-0180-y     Document Type: Article

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