Positive Least Energy Solutions and Phase Separation for Coupled Schrödinger Equations with Critical Exponent

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 515-551

  Chen, Zhijie ^a   Zou, Wenming ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84864363108     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: 14320673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-012-0513-8     Document Type: Article

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