Two new weyl-type bounds for the dirichlet laplacian

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 360, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1539-1558

  Hermi, Lotfi ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet problem; Eigenvalues of the Laplacian; Kr ger bounds; Li Yau bounds; Neumann problem; Weyl asymptotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049116937     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04254-7     Document Type: Article

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