The maximum principle

Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Application

Volumn 73, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-232

  Pucci, Patrizia ^a   Serrin, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

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