The Faber-Krahn inequality for random/nonautonomous parabolic equations

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-114

  Mierczyński, Janusz ^a   Shen, Wenxian ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Principal Lyapunov exponent; Principal spectrum; Recurrent function; Schwarz symmetrization; Schwarz symmetrized domain; The Faber Krahn inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746513833     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2005.4.101     Document Type: Article

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