# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January & February  2004, 10(1&2): 507-515. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2004.10.507

## A new variational characterization of spatially heteroclinic solutions of a semilinear elliptic PDE

 1 Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States

Received  June 2002 Revised  March 2003 Published  October 2003

This paper provides a new variational characterization of a spatially heteroclinic solution for a family of semilinear elliptic PDE's.
Citation: Paul H. Rabinowitz. A new variational characterization of spatially heteroclinic solutions of a semilinear elliptic PDE. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2004, 10 (1&2) : 507-515. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2004.10.507
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