Convexity breaking of the free boundary for porous medium equations (Q962979)

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Convexity breaking of the free boundary for porous medium equations
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    Convexity breaking of the free boundary for porous medium equations (English)
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    8 April 2010
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    Summary: We investigate the preservation of convexity of the free boundary by the solutions of the porous medium equation. We prove that starting with an initial datum with some kind of suboptimal \(\alpha\)-concavity property, the convexity of the positivity set can be lost in a short time.
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    porous medium equation
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    free boundary
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    convexity
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    heat equation
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