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Heat equation and the principle of not feeling the boundary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

M. van den Berg
M. van den Berg
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, U.K.
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Synopsis

We prove a lower bound for the Dirichlet heat kernel pD(x,y;t), where x and y are a visible pair of points in an open set D in ℝm.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 112 , Issue 3-4 , 1989 , pp. 257 - 262
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1989

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