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Indecomposible semifinite harmonic functions on the direct product of graded graphs are classified. As a particular case, the full list of indecomposible traces for the infinite inverse symmetric semigroup is obtained.
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We investigate a variational approach to nonpotential perturbations of gradient flows of nonconvex energies in Hilbert spaces. We prove existence of solutions to elliptic-in-time regularizations of gradient flows by combining the…
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