A minmax principle, index of the critical point, and existence of sign-changing solutions to elliptic boundary value problems

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 1998, Issue , 1998, Pages 1-18

  Castro, Alfonso ^a   Cossio, Jorge ^b   Neuberger, John M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet problem; Sign changing solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342925295     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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