most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-18T17:52:28Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/25182 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/99994/short-time-existence-on-nonlinear-parabolic-pde/102708#102708 Sajjad Lakzian 2012-07-20T00:29:01Z 2012-07-20T00:29:01Z

<p>Dear Denis Serre, can you please name some good references. </p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/102504/solutions-to-heat-equations-with-obstacles Sajjad Lakzian 2012-07-18T00:21:04Z 2012-07-18T22:43:43Z

<p>Consider a closed Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and a positive function $\psi: M \to R$. Fix a point $p \in M$, I have been struggling to construct a solution to the heat equation, $\partial_t u = \Delta u$, such that at some <strong>positive</strong> time $t_0>0$, I have $|u(x,t_0)| \le \psi(x)$ and $|u(p,t_0)| = \psi(p)$ and $ |\Delta u (p,t_0)| = |\Delta \psi (p)|$. </p> <p>I have been considering two approaches:</p> <p>1) One approach is to let $h(x,t) = \psi(x) - u(x,t)$. $h$ satisfies $\partial_t h = \Delta h - \Delta \psi$ then the question becomes: construct a solution $h$ such that at some <strong>positive</strong> time $t_0$, $h(.,t_0) \ge 0$ , $h(p,t_0) = 0$ and $\Delta h (p,t_0) = 0$. We know that the above Heat equation for $h$ has a heat kernel but I have not been able to construct such a solution ??? (We might need to use some assertions about the zero crossings of a heat type equation.)</p> <p>2) Take a function $g$ that satisfies $|g(x)|\le \psi(x)$ , $|g(p)| = \psi(p)$ and $ \Delta g (p) = \Delta \psi (p)$ and solve the backward Heat equation for a short time but the problem is that the backward Heat equation is not well-posed. At least we must have $g$ analytic and furthermore satisfying some proper decay rates on its derivatives. The question is, can we always find such a function $g$ satisfying the properties we want for which the backward heat equation is solvable for a short time? (I do not really need uniqueness)</p> <p>P.S.: My goal is to prove a similar thing when, $(M,g(t))$ satisfy the <strong>Ricci flow</strong> on a time interval $[0,T]$ $\psi: M \to R$ a positive obstacle and when the heat equation is the heat equation under Ricci flow namely $\partial_t u = \Delta_{g(t)} u$. </p> <p>Hope somebody could help me or just give me some ideas as to how to proceed further. </p> <p>Thanks</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/102504/solutions-to-heat-equations-with-obstacles Sajjad Lakzian 2012-07-20T00:23:14Z 2012-07-20T00:23:14Z

There is an issue though. Using the implicit function theorem, I get a solution on an open subset of M ......

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/102504/solutions-to-heat-equations-with-obstacles Sajjad Lakzian 2012-07-19T16:18:33Z 2012-07-19T16:18:33Z

Dear George, Thanks for the comment, very helpful. If I let $A(x,t,u) = (u_t + \Delta u)^2 + (\Delta u (p) - \Delta \psi(p))^2 + (u(p) - \psi(p))$ and apply the implicit function theorem to $A = 0$ on an appropriate domain namely, $u(x,t) \le \psi(x)+ \lambda(d(x,p))$ where $\lambda$ is a nonnegative function and $\lambda(0)=0$. Appreciate your help.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/102504/solutions-to-heat-equations-with-obstacles/102594#102594 Sajjad Lakzian 2012-07-19T00:55:57Z 2012-07-19T00:55:57Z

Dear Timur, I fix a point $p$ and then require $\Delta = \Delta \psi$ only at ONE point, namely the chosen point $p$.

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/102504/solutions-to-heat-equations-with-obstacles Sajjad Lakzian 2012-07-18T13:51:54Z 2012-07-18T13:51:54Z

Thanks for comment. I fixed some of the conditions, hope my question makes sense now. by the way u is not positive necessarily. I want at some positive time t_0 the graph of |u| to lie under ψ, touching it at a chosen point p with Δu(p)=Δψ(p) or Δu(p)=−Δψ(p) depending on the sign of u near p.