López-Gómez, Julián The strong maximum principle. (English) Zbl 1193.35029 RIMS Kôkyûroku Bessatsu B15, 113-123 (2009). Summary: This paper reviews some of the most paradigmatic results on the minimum and the maximum principles for a class of second-order linear elliptic operators, and establishes some new extremely sharp connections between them. Cited in 5 Documents MSC: 35J25 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations 35B50 Maximum principles in context of PDEs 47F05 General theory of partial differential operators Keywords:minimum principles; strong maximum principle; characterization theorems; second-order linear elliptic operators PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. López-Gómez}, RIMS Kôkyûroku Bessatsu B15, 113--123 (2009; Zbl 1193.35029)