Inverse problems and continuity of heat content coefficients

Abstract

We consider the small-time asymptotic expansions for the Dirichlet and Open heat contents of convex planar domains. We prove that the small-time asymptotic expansion for the Open heat content can determine a triangle among triangles, a parallelogram among parallelograms, and an acute trapezium among acute trapezia of the same height. In addition, for a sequence of convex polygons converging to a convex set with smooth boundary in the sense of Hausdorff, we show that the coefficients of order $t$ in the small-time asymptotic expansions of the Dirichlet and the Open heat contents converge to those of the limiting set. While, for a sequence of convex sets with smooth boundary converging to a convex polygon in the sense of Hausdorff, we show that the coefficients of order $t$ do not converge to that of the limiting polygon.