Maximum principles and singular elliptic inequalities

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 224-260

  Pigola, Stefano ^a   Rigoli, Marco ^b   Setti, Alberto G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liouville type theorems; Maximum principles; Quasilinear elliptic inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037143981     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jfan.2001.3930     Document Type: Article

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