Entire solutions and global Bifurcations for a biharmonic equation with singular non-linearity in ℝ3

Advances in Differential Equations

Volumn 13, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 753-780

  Guo, Zongming ^a   Wei, Juncheng ^b  

^a HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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