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We survey some recent developments in the ergodic theory for hyperbolic Riemann surface laminations. The emphasis is on singular holomorphic foliations. These results not only illustrate the strong similarity between the ergodic theory of…
We consider a diffusion process on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ an energetic variational approach with both surface divergence and transport theorems to derive…
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In these introductory notes we give the basics of the theory of holomorphic foliations and laminations. The emphasis is on the theory of harmonic currents and unique ergodicity for laminations transversally Lipschitz in CP^2 and for generic…
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We investigate heat propagation in rigidly rotating bodies within the theory of general relativity. Using a first-order gradient expansion, we derive a universal partial differential equation governing the temperature evolution. This…
Given a connected compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ without boundary, $\dim M\ge 2$, we consider a space--time fractional diffusion equation with an interior source that is supported on an open subset $V$ of the manifold. The…
We study the heat equation on a half-space or on an exterior domain with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to establish the rate of convergence to solutions of the Laplace equation with the same dynamical boundary…
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We establish the $L^2$-solvability of Dirichlet, Neumann and regularity problems for divergence-form heat (or diffusion) equations with H\"older-continuous diffusion coefficients, on bounded Lipschitz domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$. This is…
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