General formula for lower bound of the first eigenvalue on Riemannian manifolds

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 384-394

  Chen, Mufa ^a   Wang, Fengyu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupling method; Riemannian manifold; The first eigenvalue

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346477732     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02911438     Document Type: Article

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