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The paper considers solutions of the coercive inequalities
defined on an arbitrary (possibly, unbounded) subset ℝn, where n ≥ 2, L and \(\mathcal{L}\) are elliptic operators of the form
, and F is a certain function.
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Kon'kov, A.A. Behavior of Solutions of Quasilinear Elliptic Inequalities. J Math Sci 134, 2073–2237 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0096-8
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