An expository survey on the recent development of mean field equations

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 387-410

  Lin, Chang Shou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blowup behavior; Leray Schauder degree; Mean field equation; Moser Trudinger inequality; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248999425     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2007.19.387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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