Strongly indefinite systems with critical sobolev exponents

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 350, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2349-2365

  Hulshof, Josephus ^a   Mitidieri, Enzo ^a   Vandervqrst, Robertus ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical palais smale level; Critical points; Decay rates; Dual method; Elliptic variational systems; Ground states; Scaling; Strongly indefinite functionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044455761     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-98-02159-x     Document Type: Article

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