The Yamabe equation in a non-local setting

Advances in Nonlinear Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 235-270

  Servadei, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Best fractional critical Sobolev constant; Critical nonlinearities; Fractional Laplacian; Integrodifferential operators; Linking Theorem; Mountain Pass Theorem; Palais Smale condition; Variational techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885802074     PISSN: 21919496     EISSN: 2191950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/anona-2013-0008     Document Type: Article

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