Calculus and heat flow in metric measure spaces and applications to spaces with Ricci bounds from below

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-391

  Ambrosio, Luigi ^a   Gigli, Nicola ^b   Savaré, Giuseppe ^c  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c Department of Mathematics ^*  (Italy)

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EID: 84873602736     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00222-013-0456-1     Document Type: Article

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