Stability of parabolic Harnack inequalities on metric measure spaces

Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 485-519

  Barlow, Martin T ^a   Bass, Richard F ^b   Kumagai, Takashi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Green functions; Harnack inequality; Poincar inequality; Rough isometry; Sobolev inequality; Volume doubling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745605539     PISSN: 00255645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2969/jmsj/1149166785     Document Type: Article

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