Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions to a linear transport equation in a metric space

Applied Mathematics Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 49-53

  Majorana, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous solutions; Initial value problem; Transport equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039974480     PISSN: 08939659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-9659(97)00104-3     Document Type: Article

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