Nonlinear elastic membranes involving the p-laplacian operator

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-10

  Cuccu, Fabrizio ^a   Emamizadeh, Behrouz ^a,b   Porru, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Domain derivative; Existence; Maximum principle; P Laplace; Rearrangements; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645775043     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: 10726691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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