Least energy sign-changing solutions for a class of nonlocal Kirchhoff-type problems

Bitao Cheng1

  • 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, 655011 Yunnan People's Republic of China ; School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central South University, Changsha, 410083 Hunan People's Republic of China.

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|August 19, 2016
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