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A heat equation on a quaternionic contact manifold

Differential Geometry 2016-08-02 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

A quaternionic contact (qc) heat equation and the corresponding qc energy functional are introduced. It is shown that the qc energy functional is monotone non-increasing along the qc heat equation on a compact qc manifold provided certain positivity conditions are satisfied.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.00460,
  title  = {A heat equation on a quaternionic contact manifold},
  author = {Stefan Ivanov and Alexander Petkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00460},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, no figers. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.6932

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