Spherical symmetrization in the theory of elliptic partial differential equations

DOI10.1080/03605308308820277zbMath0555.35031OpenAlexW2036607017MaRDI QIDQ3218474

Allen Weitsman

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03605308308820277

zbMATH Keywords

spherical symmetrizationspherical rearrangement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30)

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