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Points of Spherical Maxima and Solvability of Semilinear Elliptic Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Martin Schechter
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, California 92717, U.S.A.
Kyril Tintarev
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, California 92717, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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We give mild sufficient conditions on a nonlinear functional to have eigenvalues. These results are intended for the study of boundary value problems for semilinear elliptic equations.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1991

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