Nonexistence and uniqueness of positive solutions of yamabe type equations on nonpositively curved manifolds

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4753-4774

  Bianchini, Bruno ^a   Rigoli, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elliptic differential inequalities; Maximum principles; Riemannian geometry

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EID: 21944455286     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01810-2     Document Type: Article

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