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Keywords:
free boundary problem; plasma physics
free boundary problem; plasma physics
Summary:
We prove existence of a positive, radial solution for a semilinear elliptic problem with a discontinuous nonlinearity. We use an approximating argument which requires no monotonicity assumptions on the nonlinearity.
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