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Bounds for solutions of a class of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems in terms of the torsion function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

L. E. Payne
L. E. Payne
Affiliation:
Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik ETH, Zürich and Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.
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Synopsis

In this paper maximum principles are employed to relate solutions of certain classes of nonlinear elliptic problems to solutions of the associated torsion problem. By this method a number of new isoperimetric inequalities are derived. In special cases solutions of the nonlinear problems are also related to solutions of the clamped membrane problem.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 88 , Issue 3-4 , 1981 , pp. 251 - 265
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1981

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