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Line segment energy and applications

Differential Geometry 2015-09-08 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we compute the derivatives of the line segment energy for a symmetric tensor field and apply them to obtain slightly more general log-concavity estimates for positive solutions of heat equations and first eigenfunctions on bounded strictly convex domains.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.01641,
  title  = {Line segment energy and applications},
  author = {Yulian Chen and Chengjie Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01641},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages

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