Symmetry and monotonicity of solutions to some variational problems in cylinders and annuli

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2003, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-20

  Brock, Friedemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Annulus; Cylinder; Elliptic equation; Neumann problem; Periodic boundary conditions; Symmetry of solutions; Variational problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042596861     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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