A unified approach to universal inequalities for eigenvalues of elliptic operators

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 201-219

  Ashbaugh, Mark S ^a   Hermi, Lotfi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

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EID: 12744260598     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2004.217.201     Document Type: Article

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