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On the isoperimetric nature of a rearrangement inequality and its consequences for some variational problems

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Kawohl, B. On the isoperimetric nature of a rearrangement inequality and its consequences for some variational problems. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 94, 227–243 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00279864

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