A Bahri-Lions theorem revisited

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 222, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2173-2195

  Ramos, M ^a   Tavares, H ^a   Zou, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biharmonic operator; Elliptic systems; Perturbation from symmetry; Semilinear elliptic equations; Sign changing solutions; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349559696     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2009.07.013     Document Type: Article

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