## Tohoku Mathematical Journal

### Stokes' theorem, volume growth and parabolicity

#### Abstract

We present some new Stokes' type theorems on complete non-compact manifolds that extend, in different directions, previous works by Gaffney and Karp and also the so called Kelvin-Nevanlinna-Royden criterion for $p$-parabolicity. Applications to comparison and uniqueness results involving the $p$-Laplacian are deduced.

#### Article information

Source
Tohoku Math. J. (2) Volume 63, Number 3 (2011), 397-412.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 11 October 2011

Permanent link to this document
http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1318338948

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2748/tmj/1318338948

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2851103

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1232.26011

#### Citation

Valtorta, Daniele; Veronelli, Giona. Stokes' theorem, volume growth and parabolicity. Tohoku Math. J. (2) 63 (2011), no. 3, 397--412. doi:10.2748/tmj/1318338948. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1318338948.

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