Nonlinear biharmonic equations with negative exponents

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 216-234

  Choi, Y S ^a   Xu, Xingwang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conformally invariant equation; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049095824     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2008.06.027     Document Type: Article

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