Abstract:We study and classify smooth bounded domains in an analytic Riemannian manifold which are critical for the heat content at all times $$t>0$$
t
>
0
. We do that by first computing the first variation of the heat content, and then showing that $$\Omega $$
Ω
is critical if and only if it has the so-called constant flow property, so that we can use a previous cl… Show more
“…Our proof relies on (weak, strong, and Friedman's) maximum principles for parabolic equations [26,28,29,49,59], Kac's principle of not feeling the boundary, and Savo's variational formula for Dirichlet heat content [62].…”
We prove that among all doubly connected domains of R n (n ≥ 2) bounded by two spheres of given radii, the Dirichlet heat content at any fixed time achieves its minimum when the spheres are concentric. This is shown to be a special case of a more general theorem concerning the optimal placement of a convex obstacle inside some larger domain so as to maximize or minimize the Dirichlet heat content.
“…Our proof relies on (weak, strong, and Friedman's) maximum principles for parabolic equations [26,28,29,49,59], Kac's principle of not feeling the boundary, and Savo's variational formula for Dirichlet heat content [62].…”
We prove that among all doubly connected domains of R n (n ≥ 2) bounded by two spheres of given radii, the Dirichlet heat content at any fixed time achieves its minimum when the spheres are concentric. This is shown to be a special case of a more general theorem concerning the optimal placement of a convex obstacle inside some larger domain so as to maximize or minimize the Dirichlet heat content.
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