HEAT EQUATIONS DEFINED BY SELF-SIMILAR MEASURES WITH OVERLAPS

Wei Tang () and Sze-Man Ngai
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Wei Tang: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410205, P. R. China
Sze-Man Ngai: ��Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing and Stochastic Information Processing (HPCSIP), (Ministry of Education of China), College of Mathematics and Statistics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, P. R. China‡Department of Mathematical Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8093, USA

FRACTALS (fractals), 2022, vol. 30, issue 03, 1-18

Abstract: We study the heat equation on a bounded open set U ⊂ ℠d supporting a Borel measure. We obtain asymptotic bounds for the solution and prove the weak parabolic maximum principle. We mainly consider self-similar measures defined by iterated function systems with overlaps. The structures of these measures are in general complicated and intractable. However, for a class of such measures that we call essentially of finite type, important information about the structure of the measures can be obtained. We make use of this information to set up a framework to study the associated heat equations in one dimension. We show that the heat equation can be discretized and the finite element method can be applied to yield a system of linear differential equations. We show that the numerical solutions converge to the actual solution and obtain the rate of convergence. We also study the propagation speed problem.

Keywords: Fractal; Laplacian; Heat Equation; Self-Similar Measure with Overlaps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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