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Nonlocal and Multipoint Boundary Value Problems for Linear Evolution Equations
Author(s) -
Pelloni Beatrice,
Smith David Andrew
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
studies in applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9590
pISSN - 0022-2526
DOI - 10.1111/sapm.12212
Subject(s) - mathematics , boundary value problem , partial differential equation , representation (politics) , class (philosophy) , constant (computer programming) , mathematical analysis , variable (mathematics) , space (punctuation) , initial value problem , constant coefficients , order (exchange) , parabolic partial differential equation , computer science , finance , artificial intelligence , politics , political science , law , economics , programming language , operating system
We derive the solution representation for a large class of nonlocal boundary value problems for linear evolution partial differential equations (PDE) with constant coefficients in one space variable. The prototypical example of such PDE is the heat equation, for which problems of this form model physical phenomena in chemistry and for which we formulate and prove a full result. We also consider the third‐order case, which is much less studied and has been shown by the authors to have very different structural properties in general. The nonlocal conditions we consider can be reformulated as multipoint conditions , and then an explicit representation for the solution of the problem is obtained by an application of the Fokas transform method. The analysis is carried out under the assumption that the problem being solved is well posed, i.e., it admits a unique solution. For the second‐order case, we also give criteria that guarantee well posedness.