Optimization of the first eigenvalue in problems involving the p-Laplacian

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1677-1687

  Cuccu, Fabrizio ^a   Emamizadeh, Behrouz ^a   Porru, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues; P Laplacian; Rearrangements; Shape optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650107202     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09769-4     Document Type: Article

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