Positive Reachability for Diffusion Equations
Author(s) -
Thomas I. Seidman
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
applied mathematics and optimization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1432-0606
pISSN - 0095-4616
DOI - 10.1007/s00245-004-0796-8
Subject(s) - counterexample , mathematics , reachability , conjecture , boundary (topology) , state (computer science) , terminal (telecommunication) , diffusion , mathematical analysis , pure mathematics , discrete mathematics , combinatorics , algorithm , computer science , telecommunications , physics , thermodynamics
Counterexamples are constructed for some plausible conjectures. Typical of these: as the Maximum Principle ensures that positive boundary data give a positive state at time T from 0 initial data, one might (plausibly, but falsely) conjecture that all positive terminal states should be approximately reachable in this way, i.e., subject to the requirement that the boundary data stays nonnegative.
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