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A Competition Model for the Offer: An Experiment of Management Simulation
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We prove the approximate controllability of several nonlinear parabolic boundary-value problems by means of two different methods: the first one can be called a Cancellation method and the second one uses the K...
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On the Approximate Controllability for Higher Order Parabolic Nonlinear Equations of Cahn-Hilliard Type
We prove the approximate controllability property for some higher order parabolic nonlinear equations of Cahn-Hilliard type when the nonlinearity is of sublinear type at infinity. We also give a counterexample...
