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UNIQUENESS OF EXTENDABLE TEMPERATURES

Part of: Parabolic equations and systems Higher-dimensional theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2020

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NEIL A. WATSON*
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand
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e-mail: neil.watson@canterbury.ac.nz
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Abstract

Let E and D be open subsets of $\mathbb {R}^{n+1}$ such that $\overline {D}$ is a compact subset of E, and let v be a supertemperature on E. A temperature u on D is called extendable by v if there is a supertemperature w on E such that $w=u$ on D and $w=v$ on $E\backslash \overline D$. From earlier work of N. A. Watson, [‘Extendable temperatures’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc. 100 (2019), 297–303], either there is a unique temperature extendable by v, or there are infinitely many; a necessary condition for uniqueness is that the generalised solution of the Dirichlet problem on D corresponding to the restriction of v to $\partial _eD$ is equal to the greatest thermic minorant of v on D. In this paper we first give a condition for nonuniqueness and an example to show that this necessary condition is not sufficient. We then give a uniqueness theorem involving the thermal and cothermal fine topologies and deduce a corollary involving only parabolic and coparabolic tusks.

Keywords

temperaturesupertemperaturefine topologycaloric measure

MSC classification

Primary: 35K05: Heat equation
Secondary: 31B05: Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions 31B20: Boundary value and inverse problems

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 103 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 311 - 317
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