Multiplicity and symmetry breaking for positive radial solutions of semilinear elliptic equations modelling MEMS on annular domains

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-14

  Feng, Peng ^a   Zhou, Zhengfang ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MEMS; Multiplicity; Radial solution; Symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144442880     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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