Weak Poincaré Inequalities on Path Spaces

International Mathematics Research Notices

Volumn , Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-108

  Wang, Feng Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 1842632427     PISSN: 10737928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/s1073792804130882     Document Type: Article

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