Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a non-uniformly parabolic equation

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-16

  Wang, Jinghua ^a   Warnecke, Gerald ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE   (China)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classical solutions; Existence; Non uniformly parabolic equation; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037457003     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00059-1     Document Type: Article

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