The porous medium equation with measure data on negatively curved Riemannian manifolds

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Abstract: We investigate existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation on negatively curved Riemannian manifolds. We show existence of solutions taking as initial condition a finite Radon measure, not necessarily positive. We then establish uniqueness in the class of nonnegative solutions. On the other hand, we prove that any weak solution of the porous medium equation necessarily takes on as initial datum a finite Radon measure. In addition, we obtain some results in potential analysis on manifolds, concerning the validity of a modified version of the mean-value inequality for superharmonic functions, and properties of potentials of positive Radon measures. Such results are new and of independent interest, and are crucial for our approach.


The paper deals with existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of Cauchy problems for the porous medium equation on Riemannian manifolds of the type \[ \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta(u^m) & \text{ in }\;M\times(0,\infty),\\ u=\mu & \text{ on }\;M\times \{0\}, \end{cases} \] where \(M\) is an \(N\)-dimensional complete, simply connected Riemannian manifold with nonpositive sectional curvatures (that is, a Cartan-Hadamard manifold), \(\Delta\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on \(M\), \(m>1\) and \(\mu\) is a finite, not necessarily positive, Radon measure on \(M\). The authors prove that any weak solution necessarily has a finite Radon measure as initial trace. The results are obtained via potential analysis on manifolds, showing the validity of a modified version of the mean-value inequality for superharmonic functions, and properties of potentials of positive Radon measures.




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