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On the existence of positive solution for an elliptic equation of Kirchhoff type via Moser iteration method
Boundary Value Problems volume 2006, Article number: 79679 (2006)
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We investigate the questions of existence of positive solution for the nonlocal problem and on, where is a bounded smooth domain of, and and are continuous functions.
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Corrêa, F.J.S.A., Figueiredo, G.M. On the existence of positive solution for an elliptic equation of Kirchhoff type via Moser iteration method. Bound Value Probl 2006, 79679 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/BVP/2006/79679
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