Upper and Lower Solutions Method for Systems

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In this chapter we introduce the upper and lower solutions method for the boundary value problem of elliptic systems.

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Wang, M., Pang, P.Y.H. (2024). Upper and Lower Solutions Method for Systems. In: Nonlinear Second Order Elliptic Equations. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8692-7_4

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