On Pólya’s Inequality for Torsional Rigidity and First Dirichlet Eigenvalue

By M. Berg, V. Ferone, Carlo Nitsch, Cristina Trombetti. Integral equations and operator theory, 2016

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Subfields: Applied Mathematics, Computational Theory and Mathematics

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