Improved regularity for the inhomogeneous porous medium equation (Q2226363)

The author studies the sharp regularity for the solutions of \[u_t-\operatorname{div}(m|u|^{m-1}\nabla u) = f \in L^{q,r},\] with \(m> 1\), in function of the optimal Hölder exponent for solutions of the homogeneous case. This result extends the recent one obtained by Araújo, Maia and Urbano \textit{D. J. Araújo} et al. [J. Anal. Math. 140, No. 2, 395--407 (2020; Zbl 1437.35131)]. For the porous medium equation, unlike other known examples, the main difficulty is that the intrinsic parabolic geometry of the equation and the available regularity do not match. Despite this difficulty, the author is able to combine the known regularity results and the optimal local regularity of the associated homogeneous equation to prove this interesting optimal regularity result.