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Sign-Changing Solutions

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In Chap. 8, we introduce some results on sign-changing solutions of elliptic and p-Laplacian, including using Nehri manifold, invariant sets of descent flows, Morse theory, etc.

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Zhang, Z. (2013). Sign-Changing Solutions. In: Variational, Topological, and Partial Order Methods with Their Applications. Developments in Mathematics, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30709-6_8

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