Unique Solvability of a System of Nonlinear Elliptic PDEs Arising in Solid State Physics

DOI10.1137/05064151XzbMath1220.35138OpenAlexW2049272521MaRDI QIDQ5296031

Xavier Blanc

Publication date: 31 July 2007

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/05064151x

zbMATH Keywords

maximum principleenergy minimizationuniquenessthermodynamic limitnonlinear elliptic PDEssupersolution methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Molecular physics (81V55) Second-order elliptic systems (35J47)

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