Overdetermined problems with possibly degenerate ellipticity, a geometric approach

Mathematische Zeitschrift

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 117-132

  Fragalà, Ilaria ^a   Gazzola, Filippo ^a   Kawohl, Bernd ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degenerate elliptic operators; Overdetermined boundary value problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745838959     PISSN: 00255874     EISSN: 14321823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00209-006-0937-7     Document Type: Article

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