Isolated singularities in the heat equation behaving like fractional Brownian motions (Q2049325)

The paper deals with the study of solutions of the heat equation in \(\mathbb{R}^N\times (0,\infty)\) outside of a possibly singular set which is essentially a \(C^\alpha\)-Hölder continuous space-time curve. The authors show that up to some order \(\alpha\) the singularity is removable, a property which does not hold below this order. In the case where the curve is similar to a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst exponent \(H\in (0,1)\) the critical exponent for removability is \(H=1/N\). The idea for the existence with a singular curve \(\{\xi(t)\}_{t\geq 0}\) is to consider the problem with measure data \[ \begin{aligned} u_t-\Delta u&=\delta(x-\xi(t))&&\text{in }\mathbb{R}^N\times (0,\infty)\\ u(x,0)&=u_0(x)&&\text{in }\mathbb{R}^N \end{aligned} \] Non-existence is obtained via the introduction of suitable test functions adapted to the singular curve, and integral estimates.