Heat Kernel Estimates and Homogenization for Asymptotically Lower Dimensional Processes on Some Nested Fractals

Potential Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 359-397

  Hambly, B M ^a   Kumagai, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dirichlet forms; Homogenization; Nash inequality; Nested fractals; Transition density estimate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032377831     PISSN: 09262601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008670625025     Document Type: Article

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