Exponential separation and principal floquet bundles for linear parabolic equations on ℝN

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-113

  Húska, Juraj ^a   Poláčik, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential separation; Parabolic equations on N; Positive entire solutions; Principal Floquet bundle

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649095716     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2008.20.81     Document Type: Article

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