A new characterization of convexity in free Carnot groups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11180-3zbMath1272.31009MaRDI QIDQ2845752

Andrea Bonfiglioli, Ermanno Lanconelli

Publication date: 3 September 2013

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-2012-11180-3

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J70: Degenerate elliptic equations

31C05: Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions on other spaces

26B25: Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations

43A80: Analysis on other specific Lie groups

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