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EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE EVANESCENT SOLUTIONS TO SOME QUASILINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2008

OCTAVIAN G. MUSTAFA*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, D.A.L., University of Craiova, Romania (email: octaviangenghiz@yahoo.com)
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Abstract

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We establish that the elliptic equation defined in an exterior domain of ℝn, n≥3, has a positive solution which decays to 0 as under quite general assumptions upon f and g.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 2008 Australian Mathematical Society

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