Existence for a degenerate diffusion problem with a nonlinear operator (Q2481747)

The authors study the existence, uniqueness and certain properties of the solution of the boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} & m( x) \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\Delta\beta^{\ast}( u) \ni f\text{ in }Q=\Omega\times( 0,T), \\ & m( x) u( x,0) =v_{0}( x) \text{ in }\Omega,\\ & u( x,t) =0\text{ on }\Sigma=\partial\Omega\times( 0,T) . \end{aligned} \] The equation is possibly degenerate and function \(\beta^{\ast},\) \(m,\) and \(f\) have some specific properties. This diffusion problem is approached with a singular diffusivity.