Some new monotonicity formulas and the singular set in the lower dimensional obstacle problem

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 415-461

  Garofalo, Nicola ^a   Petrosyan, Arshak ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67650683389     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-009-0188-4     Document Type: Article

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