Heat Flow on Alexandrov Spaces

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 307-331

  Gigli, Nicola ^a   Kuwada, Kazumasa ^b   Ohta, Shin Ichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84867628882     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 10970312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.21431     Document Type: Article

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