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The Heat Operator and Related Versions

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This chapter has a two fold aim: determine all fundamental solutions that are tempered distributions for the heat operator and related versions (including the Schrödinger operator), then use this as a toll in the solution of the generalized Cauchy problem for the heat operator.

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    First considered in 1809 for n = 1 by Laplace (cf. [39]) and then for higher dimensions by Poisson (cf. [56] for n = 2.)

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  1. P. S. Laplace, J. École Polytéch. cah., 15 (1809), p. 240 (quoted in Enc. Math. Wiss. Band II, 1. Teil, 2. Hälfte, p. 1198).

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Mitrea, D. (2013). The Heat Operator and Related Versions. In: Distributions, Partial Differential Equations, and Harmonic Analysis. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8208-6_8

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