Existence of positive solutions for some problems with nonlinear diffusion

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4231-4249

  Canada, A ^a   Drabek P ^a   Gamez J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Boundary value problems; Nonlinear diffusion; Nonlinear elliptic problems; Positive solutions; Sub And super solutions; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944432564     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01947-8     Document Type: Article

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