MULTIPLICITY RESULTS FOR p -BIHARMONIC PROBLEMS VIA MORSE THEORY

TitleMULTIPLICITY RESULTS FOR p -BIHARMONIC PROBLEMS VIA MORSE THEORY
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsLIU, SHIBO, MEDEIROS, EVERALDO, PERERA, KANISHKA
Volume13
Issue3
Start Page447
Pagination9
Date Published2009
ISSN1083-2564
AMS35J60, 47J10, 47J30, 58E05
Abstract

We establish some multiplicity results for p-sublinear and p-superlinear p-biharmonic problems using Morse theory.

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