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This course will be concerned with applications of recent work—techniques concerning the boundary behavior of positive p harmonic functions vanishing on a portion of the boundary of Lipschitz, chord arc, and Reifenberg flat domains.
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Lewis, J. (2012). Applications of Boundary Harnack Inequalities for p Harmonic Functions and Related Topics. In: Regularity Estimates for Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Problems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2045. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27145-8_1
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