A Picone's identity for the p-laplacian and applications

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 819-830

  Allegretto, Walter ^a   Huang, Yin Xi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue problems; Picone's identity; The p Laplacian

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THEOREM PROVING;

BARTA INEQUALITIES; HARDY INEQUALITIES; NON-DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; P-LAPLACIAN; PICONE IDENTITY; PRINCIPAL EIGENVALUES; STURMIAN COMPARISON;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032091443     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00530-0     Document Type: Article

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