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# Steiner symmetrization for concave semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations and the obstacle problem

• We extend some previous results in the literature on the Steiner rearrangement of linear second order elliptic equations to the semilinear concave parabolic problems and the obstacle problem.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J61, 35J65, 35J45.

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