Positive solutions to superlinear second-order divergence type elliptic equations in cone-like domains

Kondratiev, Vladimir; Liskevich, Vitali; Moroz, Vitaly

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 22 (2005) no. 1, pp. 25-43.

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