On a long-standing conjecture by Pólya-Szegö and related topics

Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 763-782

  Crasta, Graziano ^a   Fragalà, Ilaria ^b   Gazzola, Filippo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capacity; Shape optimization; Surface measure

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144443192     PISSN: 00442275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00033-005-3092-9     Document Type: Article

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