Lower semicontinuous obstacles for the porous medium equation

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2018.08.011MaRDI QIDQ2423232zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Riikka Korte, Pekka Lehtelä, Stefan Sturm

Publication date 21 June 2019

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

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

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)

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.

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