Some connections between isoperimetric and Sobolev-type inequalities

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn , Issue 616, 1997, Pages 1-111

  Bobkov, Serguei G ^a   Houdré, Christian ^b  

^a SYKTYVKAR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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