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We give a survey of Liouville-type theorems and their applications for various classes of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations and systems.
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These notes are based on a series of lectures given at MATRIX, Creswick, Australia, in November 2018. The author thanks this institution for the hospitality, as well as the University of Sydney.
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Souplet, P. (2020). Liouville-Type Theorems for Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Problems. In: de Gier, J., Praeger, C., Tao, T. (eds) 2018 MATRIX Annals. MATRIX Book Series, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38230-8_21
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