Capacity and principal eigenvalues: The method of enlargement of obstacles revisited

Annals of Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1180-1209

  Sznitman, Alain Sol ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Enlargement of obstacles; Principal eigenvalues; Quantitative Wiener criterion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031484967     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1024404510     Document Type: Article

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