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Author: \break T.~Kilpel\"ainen J.~Heinonen, and O.~Martio
Title: Nonlinear potential theory of degenerate elliptic equations
Additional book information: Oxford University Press, London, 1993, v+363 pp., US$70.00. ISBN 0-19-853669-0.

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    • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Nicola Garofalo
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (1994), 318-327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00543-9