Estimates of heat kernels for a class of second-order elliptic operators with applications to semi-linear inequalities in exterior domains

Journal of the London Mathematical Society

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-127

  Kondratiev, Vladimir ^a   Liskevich, Vitali ^c   Sobol, Zeev ^b   Us, Oleksiy ^c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1642300807     PISSN: 00246107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1112/S0024610703004824     Document Type: Article

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