The Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundary: Existence and compactness results

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The Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundary: Existence and compactness results

Zheng-Chao Han and Yanyan Li

Source: Duke Math. J. Volume 99, Number 3 (1999), 489-542.

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