Sign changing bubble tower solutions in a slightly subcritical semilinear Dirichlet problem

Pistoia, Angela; Weth, Tobias

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 24 (2007) no. 2, pp. 325-340.

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