Sign changing solutions to a nonlinear elliptic problem involving the critical Sobolev exponent in pierced domains{star, open}{star, open}The first author is supported by Fondecyt 1040936 (Chile). The second author is supported by the M.I.U.R. National Project "Metodi variazionali e topologici nello studio di fenomeni non lineari".

Journal des Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 510-528

  Musso, Monica ^a   Pistoia, Angela ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical Sobolev exponent; Multiple blow up; Sign changing solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751408033     PISSN: 00217824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matpur.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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