Instantaneous shrinking and single point extinction for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with fast diffusion

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Abstract: For a large class of non-negative initial data, the solutions to the quasilinear viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation partialtu−Deltapu+|ablau|q=0 in (0,infty)imesealN are known to vanish identically after a finite time when 2N/(N+1)extlesspleq2 and qin(0,p−1). Further properties of this extinction phenomenon are established herein: emph{instantaneous shrinking} of the support is shown to take place if the initial condition u0 decays sufficiently rapidly as |x|oinfty, that is, for each textgreater0, the positivity set of u(t) is a bounded subset of ealN even if u0extgreater0 in ealN. This decay condition on u0 is also shown to be optimal by proving that the positivity set of any solution emanating from a positive initial condition decaying at a slower rate as |x|oinfty is the whole ealN for all times. The time evolution of the positivity set is also studied: on the one hand, it is included in a fixed ball for all times if it is initially bounded (emph{localization}). On the other hand, it converges to a single point at the extinction time for a class of radially symmetric initial data, a phenomenon referred to as emph{single point extinction}. This behavior is in sharp contrast with what happens when q ranges in [p−1,p/2) and pin(2N/(N+1),2] for which we show emph{complete extinction}. Instantaneous shrinking and single point extinction take place in particular for the semilinear viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation when p=2 and qin(0,1) and seem to have remained unnoticed.




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