## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### On the Uniqueness of the Positive Solution of a Singularly Perturbed Problem

E.N. Dancer

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math. Volume 25, Number 3 (1995), 957-975.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 June 2007

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181072198

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/rmjm/1181072198

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1357103

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0846.35046

#### Citation

Dancer, E.N. On the Uniqueness of the Positive Solution of a Singularly Perturbed Problem. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 25 (1995), no. 3, 957--975. doi:10.1216/rmjm/1181072198. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1181072198.

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