On the best constant for Hardy's inequality in ℝn

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 350, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3237-3255

  Marcus, Moshe ^a   Mizel, Victor J ^b   Pinchover, Yehuda ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration effect; Essential spectrum; Rayleigh quotient

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044435246     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-98-02122-9     Document Type: Article

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