A Poincaré inequality with applications to volume-constrained area-minimizing surfaces

Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik

Volumn 503, Issue , 1998, Pages 63-85

  Sternberg, Peter ^a   Zumbrun, Kevin ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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