Classification of low energy sign-changing solutions of an almost critical problem

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 347-373

  Ben Ayed, Mohamed ^a   El Mehdi, Khalil ^b   Pacella, Filomena ^c  

^a Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b France   (Mauritania)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blow up analysis; Critical exponent; Nodal domains; Sign changing solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547664765     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2007.05.024     Document Type: Article

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