Linear instability of entire solutions for a class of non-autonomous elliptic equations

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1005-1018

  Esposito, Pierpaolo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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EID: 53849142180     PISSN: 03082105     EISSN: 14737124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0308210507000212     Document Type: Article

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