Martin boundaries of elliptic skew products, semismall perturbations, and fundamental solutions of parabolic equations

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-141

  Murata, Minoru ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elliptic equation; Fundamental solution; Green function; Intrinsic ultracontractivity; Martin boundary; Parabolic equation; Positive solution; Semismall perturbation; Skew product

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037057030     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1236(01)93939-4     Document Type: Article

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