Functional Inequalities for the Decay of Sub-Markov Semigroups

Potential Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-23

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Functional inequality; Isoperimetric inequality; Sub Markov semigroup

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037209578     PISSN: 09262601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020535718522     Document Type: Article

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