A new approach to variational problems with multiple scales

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 761-825

  Alberti, Giovanni ^a   Müller, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

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EID: 0012520952     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.1013     Document Type: Article

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