Lower semicontinuous obstacles for the porous medium equation

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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The paper deals with the obstacle problem for the porous medium equation \[ \partial_t-\Delta u^m=0\quad \text{in}\ \Omega_T \] in the slow diffusion regime $m>1,$ where $\Omega_T=\Omega\times(0,T)$ with a bounded open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n.$ The authors consider irregular obstacles that are only bounded and lower semicontinuous. Existence of solution is proved in the sense of the minimal supersolution lying above the obstacle. As a consequence, it is also shown that the 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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