Existence results for nonproper elliptic equations involving the Pucci operator

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 987-1003

  Quaas, Alexander ^a   Sirakov, Boyan ^b,c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Fully nonlinear equations; Nonproper; Sublinear; Sublinear equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747589488     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300500394421     Document Type: Article

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