Existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behaviour for fractional porous medium equations on bounded domains (Q255562)

The authors study nonlinear diffusion processes involving fractional Laplacian operators and consider the problem \[ u_t + L(\phi(u)) = 0 \text{ in } (0,\infty)\times \Omega \] supplemented with the initial condition \[ u(x,0) = u_0(x), \quad x \in \Omega \] where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d\) is a bounded domain with smooth boundary, \(d \geq 1\). The linear operator \(L\) is a fractional power of the Laplacian subject to suitable Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here \(\phi(u)\) is a continuous, smooth and increasing function. It is assumed that \(\phi' > 0\), \(\phi(\pm\infty) = \pm\infty\) and \(\phi(0) = 0\). The leading example is \(\phi(u) = |u|^{m-1}u\) with \(m > 0\). The authors establish existence and uniqueness results in a suitable class of solutions using the theory of maximal monotone operators on dual spaces. Then they describe the long-time asymptotics in terms of separate-variables solutions of the friendly giant type for \(\phi(u) = u^m\), \(m > 1\). As a by-product, it is obtained an existence and uniqueness result for semilinear elliptic non local equations with sub-linear nonlinearities.