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A Widder's type Theorem for the heat equation with nonlocal diffusion

Analysis of PDEs 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

The main goal of this work is to prove that every non-negative {\it strong solution} u(x,t)u(x,t) to the problem ut+(Δ)α/2u=0 \mboxfor(x,t)Rn×(0,T),0<α<2, u_t+(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u=0 \ \quad\mbox{for } (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^{n}\times(0,T), \quad 0<\alpha<2, can be written as u(x,t)=RnPt(xy)u(y,0)dy,u(x,t)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}{P_{t}(x-y)u(y,0)\, dy}, where Pt(x)=1tn/αP(xt1/α),P_{t}(x)=\frac{1}{t^{n/\alpha}}P\left(\frac{x}{t^{1/\alpha}}\right), and P(x):=Rneixξξαdξ. P(x):=\int_{\mathbb{R}^{n}}{e^{ix\cdot\xi-|\xi|^{\alpha}}d\xi}. This result shows uniqueness in the setting of non-negative solutions and extends some classical results for the heat equation by D. V. Widder in \cite{W0} to the nonlocal diffusion framework.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1786,
  title  = {A Widder's type Theorem for the heat equation with nonlocal diffusion},
  author = {Begoña Barrios and Ireneo Peral and Fernando Soria and Enrico Valdinoci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1786},
  year   = {2015}
}
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