Positivity properties of elliptic boundary value problems of higher order

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 5251-5258

  Grunau, Hans Christoph ^a   Sweers, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comparison principles; Green function; Hopf lemma; Poisson kernel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040398598     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0362-546x(96)00164-2     Document Type: Article

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