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We construct the biharmonic heat kernel for a suitable self-adjoint extension of the bi-Laplacian on a manifold with incomplete edge singularities. We employ a microlocal description of the biharmonic heat kernel to establish mapping properties of the corresponding biharmonic heat operator on certain Banach spaces. This yields short time existence for a class of semi-linear equations of fourth order, including for example the Cahn–Hilliard equation. We also obtain asymptotics of the solutions near the edge singularity.
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Vertman, B. The biharmonic heat operator on edge manifolds and non-linear fourth order equations. manuscripta math. 149, 179–203 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00229-015-0768-0
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