The Cauchy process and the Steklov problem

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 355-423

  Bañuelos, Rodrigo ^a   Kulczycki, Tadeusz ^b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Poland)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Couchy process; Eigenfunction; Eigenvalue; Spectral theory; Steklov problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942668409     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2004.02.005     Document Type: Article

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