A note on a result of M. Grossi
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Abstract:
The purpose of this note is to present a fact complementary to a result in a recent paper of M. Grossi. Making use of an energy balance identity, it is shown that the sufficient conditions for existence of solutions proved in Grossi’s paper are also almost necessary.References
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Additional Information
- Florin Catrina
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, St. John’s University, Queens, New York 11439
- Email: catrinaf@stjohns.edu
- Received by editor(s): December 22, 2008
- Published electronically: June 12, 2009
- Additional Notes: The author is grateful to the anonymous referee for useful comments and suggestions
- Communicated by: Matthew J. Gursky
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American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 3717-3724
- MSC (2000): Primary 35J25, 35J70
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-09-10031-X
- MathSciNet review: 2529879