Some new properties of biharmonic heat kernels

Abstract: Contrary to the second-order case, biharmonic heat kernels are sign-changing. A deep knowledge of their behaviour may however allow us to prove positivity results for solutions of the Cauchy problem. We establish further properties of these kernels, we prove some Lorch–Szegö-type monotonicity results and we give some hints on how to obtain similar results for higher order polyharmonic parabolic problems. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]