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Zeros of complex caloric functions and singularities of complex viscous Burgers equation

  • P. Poláčik and V. Šverák
Published/Copyright: May 13, 2008
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Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik
From the journal Volume 2008 Issue 616

Abstract

We show that the viscous Burgers equation ut + uux = uxx considered for complex valued functions u develops finite-time singularities from compactly supported smooth data. By means of the Cole-Hopf transformation, the singularities of u are related to zeros of complex-valued solutions v of the heat equation vt = vxx. We prove that such zeros are isolated if they are not present in the initial data.

Received: 2007-02-01
Published Online: 2008-05-13
Published in Print: 2008-March

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