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In this paper we address the well posedness of the linear heat equation under general periodic boundary conditions in several settings depending on the properties of the initial data. We develop an L q theory not based on separation of variables and use techniques based on uniform spaces. We also allow less directions of periodicity than the dimension of the problem. We obtain smoothing estimates on the solutions. Also, based on symmetry arguments, we handle Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions in some faces of the unit cell.
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Partially supported by Project MTM2012-31298, MICINN and GR58/08 Grupo 920894, UCM, Spain.
Partially supported by ICMAT Severo Ochoa project SEV-2015-0554 (MINECO)
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Rodríguez-Bernal, A. The Heat Equaton with General Periodic Boundary Conditions. Potential Anal 46, 295–321 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11118-016-9584-8
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