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A class of densely invertible parabolic operator equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

R.S. Anderssen
R.S. Anderssen
Affiliation:
Computer Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT.
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Abstract

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Before variational methods can be applied to the solution of an initial boundary value problem for a parabolic differential equation, it is first necessary to derive an appropriate variational formulation for the problem. The required solution is then the function which minimises this variational formulation, and can be constructed using variational methods. Formulations for K-p.d. operators have been given by Petryshyn. Here, we show that a wide class of initial boundary value problems for parabolic differential equations can be related to operators which are densely invertible, and hence, K-p.d.; and develop a method which can be used to prove dense invertibility for an even wider class. In this way, the result of Adler on the non-existence of a functional for which the Euler-Lagrange equation is the simple parabolic is circumvented.

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Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , December 1969 , pp. 363 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1969

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