Positive solutions of nonlinear problems involving the square root of the Laplacian

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 224, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2052-2093

  Cabré, Xavier ^a   Tan, Jinggang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

A priori estimates; Critical exponent; Fractional Laplacian; Moving planes method; Nonlinear Liouville theorems; Nonlinear mixed boundary problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952952045     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2010.01.025     Document Type: Article

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