A phase plane analysis of the "multi-bubbling" phenomenon in some slightly supercritical equations

Monatshefte fur Mathematik

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 57-79

  Del Pino, Manuel ^a,d   Dolbeault, Jean ^b   Musso, Monica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d CMM   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bifurcation diagram; Branches of solutions; Brezis Nirenberg problem; Bubbles; Critical and super critical problems; Dynamical systems; Emden Fowler transform; Gelfand problem; p Laplacian; Phase plane analysis; Singular solutions; Spikes; Supercritical case

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042534401     PISSN: 00269255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00605-004-0236-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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