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Li, Y., Ni, W.M. On the asymptotic behavior and radial symmetry of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations in R n I. Asymptotic behavior. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 118, 195–222 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00387895
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