Some continuation and variational methods for positive solutions of nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems. (English) Zbl 0309.35057

Crandall, Michael G.; Rabinowitz, Paul H.

Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 58, 207-218 (1975).

MSC:

35P05	General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs
35J60	Nonlinear elliptic equations
35B05	Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs

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