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A NOTE ON THE UNIQUENESS OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF ROBIN PROBLEM*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2008

QIUYI DAI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P.R. China e-mail: daiqiuyi@yahoo.com.cn
YUXIA FU
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, P.R. China
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This note is devoted to prove some uniqueness results of positive solutions of a Robin problem for semi-linear elliptic equations and systems.

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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 2008

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