An elliptic problem with critical growth in domains with shrinking holes

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 275-300

  Li, Gongbao ^a   Yan, Shusen ^b   Yang, Jianfu ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical exponent; Elliptic equation; Reduction method

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642369154     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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