Existence and uniqueness on the very singular solution of the porous media equation with absorption (Q1120731)

We consider a nonnegative function \(u\) defined and continuous in \(\mathbb R^ N\times [0,+\infty)\setminus \{(0,0)\}\), vanishing in \(\mathbb R^ N\times \{0\}\setminus \{(0,0)\}\) and satisfying in the sense of distributions in \(\mathbb R^ N\times (0,+\infty)\) the porous media equation with absorption (1) \(u_ t=\Delta u^ m-u^ p\). A very singular solution \(W\) of (1) is such that \(\lim_{t\downarrow 0}\int_{| x| <r}W(x,t)\,dx=+\infty\). We prove the existence and the uniqueness of the v.s.s. Moreover the v.s.s. is obtained as the limit of the fundamental solutions \(w_ c\) of (1) when the initial mass \(c\) goes to \(+\infty\).