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Nonlinear Elliptic Equations of the Second Order

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Qing Han, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Publication: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2016; Volume 171
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2607-1 (print); 978-1-4704-2906-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/171
MathSciNet review: MR3468839
MSC: Primary 35-01; Secondary 32W20

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Part 1. Quasilinear elliptic equations

Part 2. Fully nonlinear elliptic equations

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