Almost monotonicity formulas for elliptic and parabolic operators with variable coefficients

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-311

  Matevosyan, Norayr ^a   Petrosyan, Arshak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78449244357     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20349     Document Type: Article

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