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Nonexistence of global weak solutions to some properly and improperly posed problems of mathematical physics: The method of unbounded fourier coefficients

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Levine, H.A. Nonexistence of global weak solutions to some properly and improperly posed problems of mathematical physics: The method of unbounded fourier coefficients. Math. Ann. 214, 205–220 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01352106

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