On radial solutions to non-convex variational problems

Houston Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 161-181

  Flores Bazán, Fabián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bipolar function; Lower semicontinuity; Minimizing sequences; Relaxed functional

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342611748     PISSN: 03621588     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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