Abstract

We prove a global approximation theorem for a general parabolic operator $L$, which asserts that if $v$ satisfies the equation $Lv=0$ in a spacetime region $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ satisfying certain necessary topological condition, then it can be approximated in a H\"older norm by a global solution $u$ to the equation. If $\Omega$ is compact and $L$ is the usual heat operator, one can instead approximate the local solution $v$ by the unique solution that falls off at infinity to the Cauchy problem with a suitably chosen smooth, compactly supported initial datum. These results are next applied to prove the existence of global solutions to the equation $Lu=0$ with a local hot spot that moves along a prescribed curve for all time, up to a uniformly small error. Global solutions that exhibit isothermic hypersurfaces of prescribed topologies for all times and applications to the heat equation on the flat torus are discussed too.

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