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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0869.00011.] The authors study well-posedness and regularity of weak solutions for the degenerate heat equation \[ \frac{\partial w}{\partial t} - \alpha (x)\frac{\partial}{\partial x} (\alpha (x))\frac{\partial w}{\partial x} = g(x,t), \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb R^+\times (0,\infty) \] with the conditions \[ w|_{x=+0} = 0;\quad w|_{t=+0} = w_0(x). \] The coefficient \(\alpha (x)\) is assumed to be positive for \(x>0\), \(\alpha (+0)=0\), and it tends to infinity as \(x\to\infty\). Moreover, \(\alpha (x)\) is supposed to satisfy the conditions \[ \int\limits_0\frac{ds}{\alpha (s)}<\infty;\quad \int\limits^{\infty}\frac{ds}{\alpha (s)}=\infty . \] The proof of well-posedness of the problem is obtained in the framework of the theory of weighted Sobolev--Slobodetski function spaces. The analysis is carried out by means of a mapping transformation of the original problem to the Cauchy problem in the functional space \(W^{2l}_p\).