The Matzoh Ball Soup Problem: a complete characterization

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2015.06.022MaRDI QIDQ897357zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rolando Magnanini, Michele Marini

Publication date 17 December 2015

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02638, http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1003569

zbMATH Keywords

heat equationstationary isothermic surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15)

Abstract: We characterize all the solutions of the heat equation that have their (spatial) equipotential surfaces which do not vary with the time. Such solutions are either isoparametric or split in space-time. The result gives a final answer to a problem raised by M. S. Klamkin, extended by G. Alessandrini, and that was named the Matzoh Ball Soup Problem by L. Zalcman. Similar results can also be drawn for a class of quasi-linear parabolic partial differential equations with coefficients which are homogeneous functions of the gradient variable. This class contains the (isotropic or anisotropic) evolution p-Laplace and normalized p-Laplace equations.

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