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In this paper, we present a new framework how a PDE with constraints can be formulated into a sequence of PDEs with no constraints, whose solutions are convergent to the solution of the PDE with constraints. This framework is then used to…

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We consider parabolic equations on bounded smooth open sets $\Om\subset \R^N$ ($N\ge 1$) with mixed Dirichlet type boundary-exterior conditions associated with the elliptic operator $\mathscr{L} \coloneqq - \Delta + (-\Delta)^{s}$…

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