Mean-value Property For The Heat Equation
Solutions of the heat equations
satisfy a mean-value property analogous to the mean-value properties of harmonic functions, solutions of
- ,
though a bit more complicated. Precisely, if u solves
and
then
where Eλ is a "heat-ball", that is a super-level set of the fundamental solution of the heat equation:
Notice that
as λ → ∞ so the above formula holds for any (x, t) in the (open) set dom(u) for λ large enough. Conversely, any function u satisfying the above mean-value property on an open domain of Rn × R is a solution of the heat equation. This can be shown by an argument similar to the analogous one for harmonic functions.
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