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Potential Estimates for Large Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations

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In this report we describe our recent existence results [26], [27] for two not quite standard problems for semilinear elliptic equations in general domains.

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Labutin, D.A. (2003). Potential Estimates for Large Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Equations. In: Haroske, D., Runst, T., Schmeisser, HJ. (eds) Function Spaces, Differential Operators and Nonlinear Analysis. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8035-0_25

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