Existence theorems for fast diffusion equations (Q5925826)

The paper deals with the Cauchy problem for the fast diffusion equation \[ \begin{aligned} u_t=\nabla\cdot(u^{m-1}\nabla u)\quad & \text{in} {\mathbb R}^n\times[0,T],\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x)\quad & \text{for all} x\in {\mathbb R}^n,\end{aligned} \] where \(\nabla\) is the gradient operator, \(m<1\) and \(u_0\geq 0.\) The author imposes growth and decay restrictions on the initial data \(u_0(x)\) ensuring existence of classical positive solutions to the above problem.