Continuous rearrangement and symmetry of solutions of elliptic problems

Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences: Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-204

  Brock, Friedemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous symmetrization; Dirichlet type integral; Integral inequality; Semilinear elliptic problem; Symmetry of the solution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000482673     PISSN: 02534142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02829490     Document Type: Article

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