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Then, the authors consider space-time log-concavity of solutions of the problem  \\[  \\begin{cases} u_t = \\Delta u &\\text{in}\\,\\, \\mathbb R^n \\times (0,+\\infty); \\\\ u(x,0) = \\varphi(x) &\\text{for}\\,\\, x \\in \\mathbb R^n, \\end{cases} \\]  A positive function \\(v(x,t)\\) is called \\textit{log-concave} if \\(\\log v(x,t)\\) is concave with respect to the variable \\((x,t)\\). The definition is extended to non-negative \\(v\\) by means of the inequality  \\[  v\\big( (1 - \\lambda) \\, x_1 + \\lambda \\, x_2, \\, (1 - \\lambda) \\, t_1 + \\lambda \\, t_2 \\big) \\geq \\big( v(x_1, t_1) \\big)^{1 - \\lambda} \\, \\big( v(x_2, t_2) \\big)^\\lambda  \\]  which must be satisfied for all \\(x_1,x_2 \\in \\mathbb R^n\\), \\(t_1,t_2 \\in (0,+\\infty)\\) and \\(\\lambda \\in (0,1)\\). The main result (Theorem~3.1) requires the initial value \\(\\varphi(x)\\) to be non-negative, continuous and bounded over the whole space \\(\\mathbb R^n\\). 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