Optimal Nash's Inequalities on Riemannian Manifolds: The Influence of Geometry

International Mathematics Research Notices

Volumn 1999, Issue 14, 1999, Pages

  Druet, Olivier ^a   Hebey, Emmanuel ^a   Vaugon, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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