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The relation between the porous medium and the eikonal equations in several space dimensions (English)
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1987
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This paper deals with the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation \(u_ t=\Delta (u^ m)\) as \(m\to 1\). The change of variable \((m- 1)v=mu^{m-1}\) yields the perturbed eikonal equation \(v_ t=(m- 1)v\Delta v+| Dv|^ 2.\) The initial data is nonnegative to that u and v are nonnegative. Thus the perturbation is of parabolic type with degeneracy as long as v vanishes. The first theorem states the convergence of the porous medium solution v to the viscosity solution of the eikonal equation. The convergence is locally uniform. The second one deals with compactly supported data: in an appropriate sense, the interface \(S_ m\) of \(v_ m\) (recall that the porous medium equation has the finite speed propagation property for the support) converges to the one of v.
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Hamilton-Jacobi equations
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Cauchy problem
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porous medium equation
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eikonal equation
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viscosity solution
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interface
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