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On variational principles for the generalized principal eigenvalue of second order elliptic operators and some applications

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, 08903, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Roger D. Nussbaum

  2. Department of Mathematics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Yehuda Pinchover

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Dedicated to Professor Shmuel Agmon

Partially supported by NSF DMS 89-03018.

Partially supported by Technion VPR-Fund-K. and M. Bank Mathematics R. Fund.

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Nussbaum, R.D., Pinchover, Y. On variational principles for the generalized principal eigenvalue of second order elliptic operators and some applications. J. Anal. Math. 59, 161–177 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02790223

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