A C0-theory for the blow-up of second order elliptic equations of critical sobolev growth

Electronic Research Announcements of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 19-25

  Druet, Olivier ^a   Hebey, Emmanuel ^b   Robert, Frédéric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blow up behaviour; Bubbles; Critical elliptic equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344028878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10796762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S1079-6762-03-00108-2     Document Type: Article

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