## Analysis & PDE

• Anal. PDE
• Volume 2, Number 3 (2009), 305-359.

### Stability for strongly coupled critical elliptic systems in a fully inhomogeneous medium

#### Abstract

We investigate and prove analytic stability for strongly coupled critical elliptic systems in the inhomogeneous context of a compact Riemannian manifold.

#### Article information

Source
Anal. PDE, Volume 2, Number 3 (2009), 305-359.

Dates
Revised: 22 June 2009
Accepted: 21 July 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 20 December 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.apde/1513798039

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2140/apde.2009.2.305

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2603801

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1208.58025

#### Citation

Druet, Olivier; Hebey, Emmanuel. Stability for strongly coupled critical elliptic systems in a fully inhomogeneous medium. Anal. PDE 2 (2009), no. 3, 305--359. doi:10.2140/apde.2009.2.305. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.apde/1513798039

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