On the microscopic spacetime convexity principle of fully nonlinear parabolic equations I: Spacetime convex solutions

Chuanqiang Chen

doi:10.3934/dcds.2014.34.3383

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On the microscopic spacetime convexity principle of fully nonlinear parabolic equations I: Spacetime convex solutions

Chuanqiang Chen^1,

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Wu Wen-Tsun Key Laboratory of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui Province

Received: July 31, 2013

Revised: November 30, 2013

Published: August 2014

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Spacetime convexity is a basic geometric property of the solutions of parabolic equations. In this paper, we study microscopic convexity properties of spacetime convex solutions of fully nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations and give a new simple proof of the constant rank theorem in [11].

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35K10; Secondary: 35B99.

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