URL des Documents de travail : http://centredeconomiesorbonne.univ-paris1.fr/documents-de-travail-du-ces/Document de travail paru dans Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, 2013, 148 (6), pp.2719-2736.Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2013.47 - ISSN : 1955-611XWe study the optimal dynamics of an AK economy where population is uniformly distributed along the unit circle. Locations only differ in initial capital endowments. Spatio-temporal capital dynamics are described by a parabolic partial differential equation. The application of the maximum principle leads to necessary but non-sufficient first-order conditions. Thanks to the linearity of the production technology and the special spatial setting considered, the valu...