Lower semicontinuous obstacles for the porous medium equation

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2018.08.011zbMATH Open1419.35130arXiv1807.07810OpenAlexW2884358882WikidataQ109993838 ScholiaQ109993838MaRDI QIDQ2423232FDOQ2423232

Authors: Riikka Korte, Pekka Lehtelä, Stefan Sturm 

Publication date: 21 June 2019

Published in: Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We deal with the obstacle problem for the porous medium equation in the slow diffusion regime $m>1$. Our main interest is to treat fairly irregular obstacles assuming only boundedness and lower semicontinuity. In particular, the considered obstacles are not regular enough to work with the classical notion of variational solutions, and a different approach is needed. We prove the existence of a solution in the sense of the minimal supersolution lying above the obstacle. As a consequence, we can show that non-negative weak supersolutions to the porous medium equation can be approximated by a sequence of supersolutions which are bounded away from zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07810

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zbMATH Keywords

obstacle problemporous medium equationirregular obstacles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions on other spaces (31C05) Other generalizations (nonlinear potential theory, etc.) (31C45) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65)

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