Upper Bound on the Coarsening Rate for an Epitaxial Growth Model

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1549-1564

  Kohn, Robert V ^a   Yan, Xiaodong ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1142288239     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.10103     Document Type: Article

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