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Healey, T.J., Kielhöfer, H. Symmetry and nodal properties in the global bifurcation analysis of quasi-linear elliptic equations. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 113, 299–311 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00374696
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