New maximum principles for linear elliptic equations

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2439-2452

  Kuo, Hung Ju ^a   Trudinger, Neil S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Green's function; K Hessian operator; Linear elliptic equations; Local estimates; Maximum principles

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049134677     PISSN: 00222518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2007.56.3073     Document Type: Article

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