Non-Positivity of the heat equation with non-local Robin boundary conditions

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Main Authors: Glück, Jochen, Mui, Jonathan
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author Glück, Jochen
Mui, Jonathan
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Mui, Jonathan
contents We study heat equations $\partial_t u - \operatorname{div}(A\nabla u) = 0$ on bounded Lipschitz domains $Ω$, where $-\operatorname{div}(A\nabla\,\cdot\,)$ is a second-order uniformly elliptic operator with generalised Robin boundary conditions. These boundary conditions are formally given by $ν\cdot A\nabla u + Bu=0$, where $B\in\mathcal{L}(L^2(\partialΩ))$ is a general operator. In contrast to large parts of the literature on non-local Robin boundary conditions, we also allow for operators $B$ that destroy the positivity preserving property of the solution semigroup. Nevertheless, we obtain ultracontractivity of the semigroup under quite mild assumptions on $B$. For a certain class of operators $B$ we demonstrate that the semigroup is in fact eventually positive rather than positivity preserving.
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spellingShingle Non-Positivity of the heat equation with non-local Robin boundary conditions
Glück, Jochen
Mui, Jonathan
Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
Primary: 35J25, 35P05, Secondary: 46B42, 47B65
We study heat equations $\partial_t u - \operatorname{div}(A\nabla u) = 0$ on bounded Lipschitz domains $Ω$, where $-\operatorname{div}(A\nabla\,\cdot\,)$ is a second-order uniformly elliptic operator with generalised Robin boundary conditions. These boundary conditions are formally given by $ν\cdot A\nabla u + Bu=0$, where $B\in\mathcal{L}(L^2(\partialΩ))$ is a general operator. In contrast to large parts of the literature on non-local Robin boundary conditions, we also allow for operators $B$ that destroy the positivity preserving property of the solution semigroup. Nevertheless, we obtain ultracontractivity of the semigroup under quite mild assumptions on $B$. For a certain class of operators $B$ we demonstrate that the semigroup is in fact eventually positive rather than positivity preserving.
title Non-Positivity of the heat equation with non-local Robin boundary conditions
topic Analysis of PDEs
Spectral Theory
Primary: 35J25, 35P05, Secondary: 46B42, 47B65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15114