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Weak Uniqueness for Elliptic Operators in ℝ3 with Time-Independent Coefficients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Cristina Giannotti
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Dipartimento di Matematica e InformaticaVia Madonna delle CarceriI- 62032 Camerino (Macerata)Italy e-mail: [email protected]
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The author gives a proof with analytic means of weak uniqueness for the Dirichlet problem associated to a second order uniformly elliptic operator in ℝ3 with coefficients independent of the coordinate x3 and continuous in ℝ2 {0}.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2006

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