Concavity properties of solutions to some degenerate quasilinear elliptic Dirichlet problems

Sakaguchi, Shigeru

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze, Série 4, Tome 14 (1987) no. 3, pp. 403-421.

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