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Communicated by J.B. McLeod
The research of G. H. Knightly reported here was supported in part by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation, No. MPS 75-07579; that of D. Sather was supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation Grant No. MPS 73-08948 and in part by the Council on Research and Creative Work of the University of Colorado.
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Knightly, G.H., Sather, D. Existence and stability of axisymmetric buckled states of spherical shells. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 63, 305–319 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00279990
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