Principal eigenvalues and an anti-maximum principle for homogeneous fully nonlinear elliptic equations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 246, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2958-2987

  Armstrong, Scott N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti maximum principle; Dirichlet problem; Fully nonlinear elliptic equation; Principal eigenvalue

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349114337     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2008.10.026     Document Type: Article

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