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Cauchy-Liouville and universal boundedness theorems for quasilinear elliptic equations and inequalities

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Serrin, J., Zou, H. Cauchy-Liouville and universal boundedness theorems for quasilinear elliptic equations and inequalities. Acta Math. 189, 79–142 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02392645

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