Metodi di simmetrizzazione nelle equazioni alle derivate parziali

Trombetti, Guido

Bollettino della Unione matematica italiana, Série 8, 3B (2000) no. 3, pp. 601-634.

Résumé

A survey of the fundamental ideas which are the base of the socalled symmetrization method; a priori estimates in partial differential equations.

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