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Finding thin plate spline subjected to boundary conditions

I am trying to formulate a problem as a PDE. What I want to know is if my formulation is correct, if it admits solution and what am I missing. This question is related to : Thin-Plate-Spline ...
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Method of characteristics for higher order PDEs in more than two variables

I am trying to understand the mathod of characteristics for solving partial differential equations. However, all the examples I found over the internet are for first order PDEs or for second order ...
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Reference request: inverse of differential operators

I have asked a similar question on MSE but I did not receive any replies, so I am reposting here in case it is more appropriate (though I have slightly generalized the question). As an example ...
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Maximal domain of an unbounded linear operator in a weighted Hilbert-space

Let's consider the following (unbounded) linear operator. (So called transport operator in some context.) $$ \mathrm{T}: \mathcal{H} \supset \mathcal{D}(\mathrm{T}) \to \mathcal{H} , f \mapsto \mathrm{...
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Sharp Dirichlet heat kernel estimates in exterior domains?

I am right now working on some linear parabolic problems studying the behaviour of its solutions for large initial data. To do this, I have needed to use some estimates of the Dirichlet and Neumann ...
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Reference request: normal trace and the conormal derivative associated to the operator $Div (A \nabla)$ for a symmetric positive definite $A$

Let $A$ be a $3\times 3$ symmetric positive definite matrix. I am looking for a reference where I could find in which sense the normal trace $\gamma$ and conormal derivative $\gamma_n$ associated to ...
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Analysis of coefficients for quickly vanishing analytic vector field

Let $u = (u_1, u_2, u_3): \mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ be a divergence-free analytic vector field for $n =3$ or $n =4$, i.e., $u_i : \mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ are analytic ...
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Analytic approximations of smooth vector fields

Let $M$ be the set of smooth divergence-free vector fields $u$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ with $$|\partial_x^{\alpha} u(x)| \leq C_{\alpha K}(1+|x|)^{-K}$$ on $\mathbb{R}^3$ for any $\alpha,K$. Further, we ...
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Density of a functional space

Let $D$ be a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth boundary $\partial D$. Is the following subspace dense in space $L^2(D)\times L^2(\partial D)$: $$\{(f,f\rvert_{\partial D}) : f\in C^\infty(\...
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Non-closed range space of Laplace operators?

Set $ -\Delta: H^2(\mathbb{R}^3) \subseteq L^2(\mathbb{R}^3) \to L^2(\mathbb{R}^3) $. Then $ \mathcal{R}(-\Delta) $ is non-closed? Sorry if this question is trivial. I am not familiar with theory of ...
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Inverse Laplacian and convolution in Albeverio's “Solvable Models in quantum mechanics”

I asked this question on math.stackexchange.com two weeks ago but got no answers so far and I got no clues from literature, so maybe someone here knows a reference. I hope it is ok to ask this ...
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Self-adjointness and choosing appropriate function spaces

Consider the following operator on some (yet undecided) space $S$ of functions over $[0\:\:1]$ $$L(u)=\sin(x)u-x\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial x}$$ Now, its formal adjoint is $L^*(v)=\sin(x)v+\dfrac{\...
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Symbol of the Laplace-Beltrami on $\mathbb{S}^2$

This question is about how the principal part (or symbol) is defined on a manifold?-I assume that the answer is: As in $\mathbb{R}^n$ using local coordinates, i.e. A differential operator $P=\sum_{|\...
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Are there fundamental solutions of the laplacian that decay rapidly?

The question I consider the Laplacian $\Delta = \partial_1^2 + \partial_2^2 + \partial_3^2$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$. By the "standard" fundamental solution of the Laplacian, I mean the function $$ \...
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A condition for Laplacian

Let $u\in L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2}) $ with $-\Delta(u) -c (x^{2}+y^{2})u \in L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})$ where $c>0$. Is true $-\Delta u \in L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{2})$? Thank you in advance.
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Strongly continuous semigroups and symbols of pseudo differential operators

I am considering the Cauchy IVP for the evolution equation $$u_t + \Psi u =0$$ where $\Psi$ is a linear pseudo differential operator with symbol $\widehat{\Psi}\left(\underline{\xi}\right)$. The ...
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Laplacian on space of measures

Let $X$ be a compact Riemannian manifold and let $\mathcal{M}(X)$ be the space of regular finite Borel measures with the total variation as norm. The Laplace-Belrami-Operator $\Delta$ on $X$ with ...
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Precise versions of "differential operators are unbounded but closed linear operators"

I am trying to understand to what extent the following result of Hille is an extension of the usual theorems on differentiation under the integral sign. Theorem (Hille). Let $(\Omega,\Sigma,\mu)$ ...
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Mellin transform between heat kernel and zeta-function

For some notion of a "positive operator" $D$ of "Laplacian type" one seems to be able to define a notion of a zeta-function as $\xi(s,f,D) = Tr_{L^2}(f D^{-s})$ where $f \in L^2$ (the space of square-...
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Fourier transform and spectrum of PDOs in $L^p$

Let $K$ be a compact subset in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $m(K)=0$, Suppose $supp\hat{u}\subset K$ for some $u\in L^p$,where $2\leq p\leq \frac{2n}{n-1}$,can we get $u\equiv 0$ ? Motivation: If $K$ is a ...
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PDES - from Vector fields whose inner product with their vector Laplacian equals norm of the vector field

Let $g(x_{1},........,x_{n}) = \sum_{i=1}^{n}g_{i}(x_{1},\cdots,x_{n})e_{i}$ be a function in $\mathbb{C}^n$ ($e_{i}$ are the standard bases). Let $\nabla^{2}$ be the vector Laplacian. Let $<\cdot,...
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