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Received: 29 May 2002, Accepted: 12 June 2003, Published online: 4 September 2003

This work was supported by the ARC

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Dancer, E., Yan, S. Construction of various types of solutions for an elliptic problem. Cal Var 20, 93–118 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-003-0229-6

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