Essential self-adjointness of Schrödinger-type operators on manifolds

Russian Mathematical Surveys

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 641-692

  Braverman, Maxim ^a   Milatovic, O ^a   Shubin, M ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036664252     PISSN: 00360279     EISSN: 14684829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1070/RM2002v057n04ABEH000532     Document Type: Article

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