Minimal Solutions of the Heat Equation and Uniqueness of the Positive Cauchy Problem on Homogeneous Spaces

DOI10.2307/2045390zbMath0577.35047OpenAlexW4249647777MaRDI QIDQ3699249

Adam Korányi, J. C. Taylor

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2045390

zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous spacesuniquenessnonnegative solutionRiemannian manifoldsLaplace-Beltrami operatorparabolic equationsminimal solutionbounded geometryChoquet's theorempositive Cauchy problemcoefficients independent of time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces (43A85) Martin boundary theory (31C35) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Potential theory on Riemannian manifolds and other spaces (31C12)

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