On the Lazer-McKenna conjecture and its applications

Santra, Sanjiban

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-2015-12572-5

On the Lazer-McKenna conjecture and its applications
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Abstract:

In this paper, we prove the Lazer-McKenna conjecture for the suspension bridge model in higher dimension. We also discuss some properties of the limiting problem related to the Swift-Hohenberg equation.

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