The stationary critical points of the fractional heat flow

arXiv2212.05383MaRDI QIDQ6420159FDOQ6420159

Authors: Nicola De Nitti, Shigeru Sakaguchi 

Publication date: 10 December 2022

Abstract: We study the spatial critical points of the solutions $u=u(x,t)$ of the fractional heat equation. For the Cauchy problem, we show that the origin $0$ satisfies $abl{a}_{x}u(0,t)=0$ for $t>0$ if and only if the initial data satisfy a balance law of the form $in{t}_{mathbb{S}^{N-1}}omega{u}_0(romega),mathrmdomega=0$ for a. e. $rge0$. Moreover, for the Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem, we prove two symmetry results: $Omega$ is a ball centered at the origin if and only if $abl{a}_{x}u(0,t)=0$ for $t>0$ provided that the initial data satisfies the above-mentioned balance law; $Omega$ is centrosymmetric if and only if $abl{a}_{x}u(0,t)=0$ for $t>0$ provided that the initial data is centrosymmetric. These results extend some theorems obtained by Magnanini and Sakaguchi in 1997-1999 for the (local) heat equation to the fractional context. These extensions are nontrivial because of the nonlocal nature of the fractional Laplacian. Among others, the proof of the characterization of a ball in the Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem for the fractional heat flow not only works for the classical heat flow but also gives a new insight into the problem.

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