Stability and instability of Liapunov-schmidt and hopf bifurcation for a free boundary problem arising in a tumor model

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 360, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 5291-5342

  Friedman, Avner ^a   Hu, Bei ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Free boundary problems; Instability; Stability; Stationary solution; Symmetry breaking; Tumor cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349241484     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04468-1     Document Type: Article

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