Symmetry results for functions yielding best constants in Sobolev-type inequalities

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 683-690

  Kawohl, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues; Sobolev inequality; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034404837     PISSN: 10780947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2000.6.683     Document Type: Article

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