Three positive solutions for Dirichlet problems involving critical Sobolev exponent and sign-changing weight

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 249, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1549-1578

  Wu, Tsung fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concave convex nonlinearities; Critical Sobolev exponent; Fibering map; Lusternik Schnirelman category; Sign changing weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955570947     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.07.021     Document Type: Article

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