Symmetry of non-negative solutions of a semilinear elliptic equation with singular nonlinearity

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 963-994

  Guo, Zongming ^a,b   Wei, Juncheng ^c  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 77950689057     PISSN: 03082105     EISSN: 14737124     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0308210505001083     Document Type: Article

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