The Inequality of Moser and Trudinger and Applications to Conformal Geometry

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1135-1150

  Chang, Sun Yung Alice ^a   Yang, Paul C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0037660833     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3029     Document Type: Article

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