Sharp Sobolev trace inequalities on Riemannian manifolds with boundaries

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 449-487

  Li, Yanyan ^a   Zhu, Meijun ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 0039500609     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0312(199705)50:5<449::aid-cpa2>3.0.co;2-9     Document Type: Article

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