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Díaz, J. (2005). On the Haïm Brezis Pioneering Contributions on the Location of Free Boundaries. In: Bandle, C., et al. Elliptic and Parabolic Problems. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 63. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7384-9_23

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