Heteroclinic solutions of a van der Waals model with indefinite nonlocal interactions

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-281

  Bates, Peter W ^a   Chen, Xinfu ^b   Chmaj, Adam J J ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 26244457745     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-005-0308-y     Document Type: Article

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