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On the existence of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions

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Research supported in part by NSF Grants DMS 8657483 and GER 9023335

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Chen, Z.Q., Williams, R.J. & Zhao, Z. On the existence of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Math. Ann. 298, 543–556 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01459750

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