Refined Kato Inequalities and Conformal Weights in Riemannian Geometry

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 214-255

  Calderbank, David M J ^a   Gauduchon, Paul ^b   Herzlich, Marc ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Kato inequality; conformal weight; elliptic operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000915878     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.2000.3563     Document Type: Article

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