Harnack inequality and hyperbolicity for subelliptic p-Laplacians with applications to Picard type theorems

Geometric and Functional Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1139-1191

  Coulhon, Thierry ^a   Holopainen, Ilkka ^c   Saloff Coste, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0035568593     PISSN: 1016443X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-001-8227-3     Document Type: Article

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