A Generalization of Aubry-Mather Theory to Partial Differential Equations and Pseudo-Differential Equations

De La Llave, Rafael; Valdinoci, Enrico

Annales de l'I.H.P. Analyse non linéaire, Tome 26 (2009) no. 4, pp. 1309-1344.

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