Nonexistence of multi-bubble solutions to some elliptic equations on convex domains

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 259, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 904-917

  Grossi, Massimo ^a   Takahashi, Futoshi ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blowing up solution; Critical Sobolev exponent; Liouville equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952955238     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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