Fractional conformal laplacians and fractional yamabe problems

Analysis and PDE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1535-1576

  González, María Del Mar ^a   Qing, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal geometry; Fractional laplacian; Yamabe problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894034859     PISSN: 21575045     EISSN: 1948206X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/apde.2013.6.1535     Document Type: Article

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