| Title:
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Discontinuous elliptic problems in $\Bbb R^N$ without monotonicity assumptions (English) |
| Author:
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Cingolani, Silvia |
| Author:
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Lazzo, Monica |
| Language:
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English |
| Journal:
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Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae |
| ISSN:
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0010-2628 (print) |
| ISSN:
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1213-7243 (online) |
| Volume:
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42 |
| Issue:
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3 |
| Year:
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2001 |
| Pages:
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451-458 |
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| Category:
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math |
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| Summary:
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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. (English) |
| Keyword:
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free boundary problem |
| Keyword:
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plasma physics |
| MSC:
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35A35 |
| MSC:
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35J20 |
| MSC:
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35J60 |
| MSC:
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35R05 |
| idZBL:
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Zbl 1115.35043 |
| idMR:
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MR1859592 |
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| Date available:
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2009-01-08T19:11:31Z |
| Last updated:
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2012-04-30 |
| Stable URL:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/119259 |
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