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Systems of Partial Differential Equations Which Generalize the Heat Equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

I. I. Hirschman Jr.*
Affiliation:
Washington University, Saint Louis
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The distribution of heat in an infinite rod is closely bound up with the theory of the Weierstrass transform. This connection is exhibited most clearly in the theory of Widder [3]. Consider the heat equation

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1953

References

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