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Some Recent Results Regarding Symmetry and Symmetry-breaking Properties of Optimal Composite Membranes

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  1. Departamento de Matemática - IMECC, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP6065, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Renato H.L. Pedrosa

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  1. Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions B.C. 187, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Thierry Cazenave

  2. Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, 89154-4020, USA

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  3. Instituto de Matemática, UNICAMP - IMECC, Caixa Postal: 6065, 13083-859, Campinas, SP, Brasil

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  4. Departamento de Ingenieria Matemática Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 170, Correo 3, Santiago, Chile

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  5. Mathematics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 480 Lincoln Dr, Madison, WI, 53706-1388, USA

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  6. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi, Via Saldini 50, 20133, Milano, Italy

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Pedrosa, R.H. (2005). Some Recent Results Regarding Symmetry and Symmetry-breaking Properties of Optimal Composite Membranes. In: Cazenave, T., et al. Contributions to Nonlinear Analysis. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 66. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7401-2_29

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