Infinitely many turning points for an elliptic problem with a singular non-linearity

Journal of the London Mathematical Society

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-35

  Guo, Zongming ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 47949083734     PISSN: 00246107     EISSN: 14697750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1112/jlms/jdm121     Document Type: Article

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