Logarithmic Sobolev inequality and semi-linear dirichlet problems for infinitely degenerate elliptic operators

Asterisque

Volumn , Issue 284, 2003, Pages 245-264

  Morimoto, Yoshinori ^a   Xu, Chao Jiang ^b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

H rmander's operators; Hypoellipticity; Logarithmic Sobolev inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747160977     PISSN: 03031179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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