Low dimensional instability for semilinear and quasilinear problems in ℝN

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1779-1793

  Castorina, Daniele ^a   Esposito, Pierpaolo ^b   Sciunzi, Berardino ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical dimension; Linear instability; p Laplace operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249095229     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2009.8.1779     Document Type: Article

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