On the number of interior peak solutions for a singularly perturbed neumann problem

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-281

  Lin, Fang Hua ^a   Ni, Wei Ming ^b   Wei, Jun Cheng ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 33846284180     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20139     Document Type: Article

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