Existence and nonexistence results for critical growth biharmonic elliptic equation

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-143

  Gazzola, Filippo ^a   Grunau, Hans Christoph ^b   Squassina, Marco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b Institute of Ecology   (Germany)

^c Dipartimento di Matematica   (Italy)

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EID: 0142137721     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-002-0182-9     Document Type: Article

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