Integral Representations and Liouville Theorems for Solutions of Periodic Elliptic Equations

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 402-446

  Kuchment, Peter ^a   Pinchover, Yehuda ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elliptic operator; Floquet theory; Integral representation; Liouville theorem; Periodic operator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005228574     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.2000.3727     Document Type: Article

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