Estimates of Dirichlet heat kernels

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 217-234

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

58G11; 60H10; Diffusion process; Dirichlet heat kernel; Gradient estimate; Harnack inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009912731     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4149(97)00108-7     Document Type: Article

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