If time were a graph, what would evolution equations look like?

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Hauptverfasser: Hussein, Amru, Mugnolo, Delio
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author Hussein, Amru
Mugnolo, Delio
author_facet Hussein, Amru
Mugnolo, Delio
contents Linear evolution equations are considered usually for the time variable being defined on an interval where typically initial conditions or time-periodicity of solutions are required to single out certain solutions. Here we would like to make a point of allowing time to be defined on a metric graph or network where on the branching points coupling conditions are imposed such that time can have ramifications and even loops. This not only generalizes the classical setting and allows for more freedom in the modeling of coupled and interacting systems of evolution equations, but it also provides a unified framework for initial value and time-periodic problems. For these time-graph Cauchy problems questions of well-posedness and regularity of solutions for parabolic problems are studied along with the question of which time-graph Cauchy problems cannot be reduced to an iteratively solvable sequence of Cauchy problems on intervals. Based on two different approaches - an application of the Kalton-Weis theorem on the sum of closed operators and an explicit computation of a Green's function - we present the main well-posedness and regularity results. We further study some qualitative properties of solutions. While we mainly focus on parabolic problems we also explain how other Cauchy problems can be studied along the same lines. This is exemplified by discussing coupled systems with constraints that are non-local in time akin to periodicity.
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spellingShingle If time were a graph, what would evolution equations look like?
Hussein, Amru
Mugnolo, Delio
Analysis of PDEs
Primary: 47D99, Secondary: 47D06, 35B10, 34G10
Linear evolution equations are considered usually for the time variable being defined on an interval where typically initial conditions or time-periodicity of solutions are required to single out certain solutions. Here we would like to make a point of allowing time to be defined on a metric graph or network where on the branching points coupling conditions are imposed such that time can have ramifications and even loops. This not only generalizes the classical setting and allows for more freedom in the modeling of coupled and interacting systems of evolution equations, but it also provides a unified framework for initial value and time-periodic problems. For these time-graph Cauchy problems questions of well-posedness and regularity of solutions for parabolic problems are studied along with the question of which time-graph Cauchy problems cannot be reduced to an iteratively solvable sequence of Cauchy problems on intervals. Based on two different approaches - an application of the Kalton-Weis theorem on the sum of closed operators and an explicit computation of a Green's function - we present the main well-posedness and regularity results. We further study some qualitative properties of solutions. While we mainly focus on parabolic problems we also explain how other Cauchy problems can be studied along the same lines. This is exemplified by discussing coupled systems with constraints that are non-local in time akin to periodicity.
title If time were a graph, what would evolution equations look like?
topic Analysis of PDEs
Primary: 47D99, Secondary: 47D06, 35B10, 34G10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06868