Existence and qualitative properties of concentrating solutions for the sinh-Poisson equation

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 706-729

  Bartolucci, Daniele ^a   Pistoia, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nodal lines; Nodal solutions; Vortices

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

CONCENTRATING SOLUTIONS; NODAL LINES; NODAL SOLUTIONS; SINH-POISSON EQUATION;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 36549007788     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxm012     Document Type: Article

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