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On Radial Solutions of Quasilinear Boundary Value Problems

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Topics in Nonlinear Analysis

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In this paper we establish the existence of positive radial solutions for a class of quasilinear elliptic boundary problems. Both the positone and nonpositone cases are considered.

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Hai, D.D., Schmitt, K. (1999). On Radial Solutions of Quasilinear Boundary Value Problems. In: Escher, J., Simonett, G. (eds) Topics in Nonlinear Analysis. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 35. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8765-6_16

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