N-vortex equilibria for ideal fluids in bounded planar domains and new nodal solutions of the sinh-Poisson and the Lane-Emden-Fowler equations

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 297, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 653-686

  Bartsch, Thomas ^a   Pistoia, Angela ^b   Weth, Tobias ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 77953649315     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: 14320916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-010-1053-4     Document Type: Article

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