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Remark on the strong unique continuation property for parabolic operators

Author(s): Giovanni Alessandrini; Sergio Vessella
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 499-501.
MSC (2000): Primary 35B05, 35K99; Secondary 35R25
Posted: June 23, 2003
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Abstract: We consider solutions $u = u(x,t)$, in a neighbourhood of $(x,t) =(0,0)$, to a parabolic differential equation with variable coefficients depending on space and time variables. We assume that the coefficients in the principal part are Lipschitz continuous and that those in the lower order terms are bounded. We prove that, if $u( \cdot,0)$ vanishes of infinite order at $x=0$, then $u( \cdot ,0) \equiv 0$.


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Giovanni Alessandrini
Affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, Via A. Valerio 12/1, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Email: alessang@univ.trieste.it

Sergio Vessella
Affiliation: DiMaD, Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Via C. Lombroso 6/17, 50134 Florence, Italy
Email: vessella@dmd.unifi.it

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-03-07142-9
PII: S 0002-9939(03)07142-9
Keywords: Strong unique continuation, parabolic equations
Received by editor(s): October 15, 2002
Posted: June 23, 2003
Additional Notes: The authors acknowledge partial support from M.U.R.S.T. grant no. MM01111258.
Communicated by: Andreas Seeger
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society


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F. J. Fernandez, Unique Continuation for Parabolic Operators. II, Communications in Partial Differential Equations 28 (2003), 10.1081/PDE-120024523, posted on 08/28/2003, 1597 - 1604.


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