On the properties of ∞-harmonic functions and an application to capacitary convex rings

Electronic Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 2002, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Tilak ^a  

^a BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

laplacian; Boundary harnack inequality; Capacitary functions; Convex rings; Viscosity solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449090842     PISSN: 10726691     EISSN: 10726691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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