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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  and
Xingbin Pan
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
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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.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 123 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 763 - 782
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1993

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