On a class of reversible elliptic systems

Paul H. Rabinowitz; Paul H. Rabinowitz

doi:10.3934/nhm.2012.7.927

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

2012, Volume 7, Issue 4: 927-939. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.927

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On a class of reversible elliptic systems

Paul H. Rabinowitz ^{1
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Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706

Received: 01 April 2012 Revised: 01 July 2012
Primary: 35J46, 35J50; Secondary: 34C25, 34C37.

The existence of periodic and spatially heteroclinic solutions is studied for a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations.
- Period solutions,
- heteroclinic solutions,
- minimization,
- renormalized functional
Citation: Paul H. Rabinowitz. On a class of reversible elliptic systems[J]. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2012, 7(4): 927-939. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.927

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The existence of periodic and spatially heteroclinic solutions is studied for a class of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations.

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