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Author(s): Ross G. Pinsky
Title: Positive harmonic functions and diffusion: An integrated analytic and probabilistic approach
Additional book information: Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995, xvi + 474, vol. 45, $80.00, ISBN 0-521-47014-5

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Reviewer(s):
Michael Cranston
Affiliation: University of Rochester
Email: cran@db1.cc.rochester.edu

MSC (1991): Primary 60J60; Secondary 35J15
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-97-00722-2
PII: S 0273-0979(97)00722-2
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society

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