On estimation of the Dirichlet spectral gap

Archiv der Mathematik

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 450-455

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0034556860     PISSN: 0003889X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000130050528     Document Type: Article

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