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On the Existence of the Resolvent Kernel for Elliptic Differential Operator in a Compact Riemann Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Kôsaku Yosida
Kôsaku Yosida*
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Mathematical Institute, Nagoya University
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We consider the differential operator

in an n-dimensional (n≧2), orientiable, compact Riemann space R with the metric ds2 = gij(x)dxidxj. Here bij(x) is a contravariant tensor such that the quadratic form and ai(x) changes, by the coordininates transformation x → x̅, as follows:

.

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Research Article
Information
Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 4 , June 1952 , pp. 63 - 72
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1952

References

1) Yosida, Ko: Integrability of the backward diffusion equation in a compact Riemannian space, Nagoya Math. Journal, Vol. 3, 1-4 (1951)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. At this juncture, the author wishes to correct the errata in the cited paper, (−m-1 Ã) on page 3, line 2 must be corrected as (I−m-1 Ã), D(A) and A on page 3, line 5 must be corrected as D(Im ) and Im respecteively.

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7) Schwartz: ibid.

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