# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

September  2013, 12(5): 2277-2296. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.2277

## On behavior of signs for the heat equation and a diffusion method for data separation

 1 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8914, Japan 2 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba 3-8-1, Tokyo 153-8914 3 Division of Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Engineering, Gunma University, 4-2 Aramaki-cho, Maebashi, 371-8510 4 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8914

Received  February 2012 Revised  October 2012 Published  January 2013

Consider the solution $u(x,t)$ of the heat equation with initial data $u_0$. The diffusive sign $S_D[u_0](x)$ is defined by the limit of sign of $u(x,t)$ as $t\to 0$. A sufficient condition for $x\in R^d$ and $u_0$ such that $S_D[u_0](x)$ is well-defined is given. A few examples of $u_0$ violating and fulfilling this condition are given. It turns out that this diffusive sign is also related to variational problem whose energy is the Dirichlet energy with a fidelity term. If initial data is a difference of characteristic functions of two disjoint sets, it turns out that the boundary of the set $S_D[u_0](x) = 1$ (or $-1$) is roughly an equi-distance hypersurface from $A$ and $B$ and this gives a separation of two data sets.
Citation: Mi-Ho Giga, Yoshikazu Giga, Takeshi Ohtsuka, Noriaki Umeda. On behavior of signs for the heat equation and a diffusion method for data separation. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (5) : 2277-2296. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.2277
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