A description of all self-adjoint extensions of the Laplacian and Kreǐn-type resolvent formulas on non-smooth domains

Journal d'Analyse Mathematique

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-172

  Gesztesy, Fritz ^a   Mitrea, Marius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 79955046692     PISSN: 00217670     EISSN: 15658538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11854-011-0002-2     Document Type: Article

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