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On an elliptic equation related to the blow-up phenomenon in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Russell Johnson
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita di Firenze, Via di Santa Marta 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy
Xingbin Pan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Synopsis

This paper is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behaviour of radial solutions to an elliptic equation in ℝn. The equation is derived from the blow-up problem in the non-linear Schrödinger equation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1993

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