Capacitary estimates and the local behavior of solutions of nonlinear subelliptic equations

American Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1153-1196

  Capogna, Luca ^a   Danielli, Donatella ^a   Garofalo, Nicola ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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