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Strong Oscillation of Elliptic Equations in General Domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

C. A. Swanson*
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Strong oscillation criteria will be obtained for the linear elliptic partial differential equation

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in unbounded domains R of general type in n-dimensional Euclidean space En. It will be assumed throughout that B and each Aij are real-valued continuous functions in R, and that the matrix (Aij(x)) is symmetric and positive definite in R.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1973

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