Monotonicity for elliptic equations in unbounded lipschitz domains

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1089-1111

  Berestycki, H ^a   Caffarelli, L A ^c   Nirenberg, L ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(199711)50:11<1089::AID-CPA2>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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