Evans function and blow-up methods in critical eigenvalue problems

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 941-964

  Sandstede, Björn ^a   Scheel, Arnd ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Algebraic decay; Evans function; Radial Laplacian

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942631674     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2004.10.941     Document Type: Article

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