Flattening results for elliptic PDEs in unbounded domains with applications to overdetermined problems

Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1025-1058

  Farina, Alberto ^a   Valdinoci, Enrico ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

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EID: 77950022098     PISSN: 00039527     EISSN: 14320673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-009-0227-8     Document Type: Article

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