General formulae for the lower bound of the first two Dirichlet eigenvalues

Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-242

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dirichlet eigenvalue; Riemannian manifold

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040219799     PISSN: 10275487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11650/twjm/1500407095     Document Type: Article

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