The Poisson problem for the exterior derivative operator with Dirichlet boundary condition in nonsmooth domains (Q2518209)

The interesting paper under review deals with the questions of existence and uniqueness of non-negative solutions to the Cauchy problem \[ \begin{cases} \rho(x)\partial_tu=\Delta u^m & \text{in}\;\mathbb R^n\times \mathbb R_+,\quad n\geq 3,\\ u(x,0)=u_0, \end{cases} \] within the class of solutions with finite energy \[ E(t)=\int_{\mathbb R^n} \rho(x)u(x,t)\,dx\quad \forall t\geq0. \] Assuming \(m>1\) (slow diffusion) and the density \(\rho(x)\) positive, bounded and smooth, the authors prove existence of weak solutions starting from data \(u_0\geq0\) with a finite energy. It is shown that uniqueness holds true if \(\rho(x)\) has a moderate decay as \(| x| \to\infty\) which essentially amounts to the condition \(\rho\notin L^1({\mathbb R^n}).\) Moreover, conditions on the density are identified which guarantee finite speed of propagation and energy conservation, that is, \(E(t)=\text{const}.\) The approach is based on a new a~priori estimate for the solutions.