Log-concavity in some parabolic problems

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 1999, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-12

  Greco, Antonio ^a   Kawohl, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concavity maximum principle; Log concavity; Parabolic equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347095012     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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