Inheritance of symmetry for positive solutions of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 705-714

  Kawohl, Bernd ^a   Sweers, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

REFLECTION SYMMETRY; STEINER SYMMETRIES;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0347354924     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0294-1449(02)00099-9     Document Type: Article

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