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Counterexamples to quasiconcavity for the heat equation

Analysis of PDEs 2021-11-17 v2

Abstract

We construct solutions to the heat equation on convex rings showing that quasiconcavity may not be preserved along the flow, even for smooth and subharmonic initial data.

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@article{arxiv.1802.04770,
  title  = {Counterexamples to quasiconcavity for the heat equation},
  author = {Albert Chau and Ben Weinkove},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04770},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 1 figure. v2 Final version with minor corrections, to appear in Int. Math. Res. Not