Abstract
In this note we prove a ‘maximum principle’ for circle-valued solutions of the (time-dependent) heat equation on closed Riemannian manifolds.
Communicated by: S. Weintraub
Acknowledgements
The author thanks Vin de Silva and David Lipsky for helpful discussions on this topic, and the anonymous referee for simplifying a part of the proof of Theorem 10.
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