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Sharp borderline Sobolev inequalities on compact Riemannian manifolds

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Fontana, L. Sharp borderline Sobolev inequalities on compact Riemannian manifolds. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 68, 415–454 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02565828

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