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Initial and relative limiting behaviour of temperatures on a strip

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

N. A. Watson
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Department of Mathematics University of CanterburyChristchurch, New Zealand
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Let u be a solution of the heat equation which can be written as the difference of two non-negative solutions, and let v be a non-negative solution. A study is made of the behaviour of u(x, t)/v(x, t) as t → 0+. The methods are based on the Gauss-Weierstrass integral representation of solutions on Rn × ]0, a[ and results on the relative differentiation of measures, which are employed in a novel way to obtain several domination, non-negativity, uniqueness and representation theorems.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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