Symmetry for exterior elliptic problems and two conjectures in potential theory

Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Analyse Non Lineaire

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-156

  Sirakov, Boyan ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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EID: 0345981470     PISSN: 02941449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0294-1449(00)00052-4     Document Type: Article

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