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On weakly A-harmonic tensors

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni "Renato Caccioppoli", Università di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy

Abstract

We study very weak solutions of an A-harmonic equation to show that they are in fact the usual solutions.

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Studia Mathematica
1995/114/3
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Pages:
289-301
Main language of publication
English
Received
1994-07-19
Accepted
1994-10-11
Published
1995
Exact and natural sciences