Matzoh ball soup: Heat conductors with a stationary isothermic surface

Annals of Mathematics

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 931-946

  Magnanini, Rolando ^a   Sakaguchi, Shigeru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heat equation; Overdetermined problems; Stationary surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036880123     PISSN: 0003486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3597287     Document Type: Article

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