Chapter 3 Qualitative properties of solutions to elliptic problems

Handbook of Differential Equations: Stationary Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 157-233

  Ni, Wei Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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