On a superlinear elliptic p-Laplacian equation

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 149-175

  Bartsch, Thomas ^a   Liu, Zhaoli ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

p Laplace operator; Quasilinear Dirichlet problem; Sign changing solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542721005     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

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