Asymptotic behavior of touch-down solutions and global bifurcations for an elliptic problem with a singular nonlinearity

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 765-786

  Guo, Zongming ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asymptotic symmetry; Infinitely many bifurcation points; Semilinear elliptic problems with a singularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949171644     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2008.7.765     Document Type: Article

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