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Tangency and Comparison Theorems for Elliptic Inequalities

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The Maximum Principle

Part of the book series: Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications ((PNLDE,volume 73))

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We begin with the classical maximum principle due to E. Hopf [46], together with an extended commentary and discussion of Hopf’s original paper by J. Serrin [97].

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(2007). Tangency and Comparison Theorems for Elliptic Inequalities. In: The Maximum Principle. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 73. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8145-5_2

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