On the variation of maximal operators of convolution type II (Q1645293)

Summary: In this paper we establish that several maximal operators of convolution type, associated to elliptic and parabolic equations, are variation-diminishing. Our study considers maximal operators on the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^d\), on the torus \(\mathbb{T}^d\) and on the sphere \(\mathbb{S}^d\). The crucial regularity property that these maximal functions share is that they are subharmonic in the corresponding detachment sets.