## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### Some existence results for a class of fourth order elliptic equations with nonsmooth potential

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math., Volume 40, Number 5 (2010), 1729-1743.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 16 November 2010

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1289916920

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/RMJ-2010-40-5-1729

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2737387

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1205.35075

#### Citation

Zhang, Guoqing; Liu, Sanyang. Some existence results for a class of fourth order elliptic equations with nonsmooth potential. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 40 (2010), no. 5, 1729--1743. doi:10.1216/RMJ-2010-40-5-1729. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1289916920

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