Optimal estimates for fractional fast diffusion equations

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Abstract: We obtain a priori estimates with best constants for the solutions of the fractional fast diffusion equation ut+(−Delta)sigma/2um=0, posed in the whole space with 0<sigma<2, 0<mle1. The estimates are expressed in terms of convenient norms of the initial data, the preferred norms being the L1-norm and the Marcinkiewicz norm. The estimates contain exact exponents and best constants. We also obtain optimal estimates for the extinction time of the solutions in the range m near 0 where solutions may vanish completely in finite time. Actually, our results apply to equations with a more general nonlinearity. Our main tools are symmetrization techniques and comparison of concentrations. Classical results for sigma=2 are recovered in the limit.


Using parabolic comparison results from a previous work [ibid. (9) 101, No. 5, 553--582 (2014; Zbl 1290.35317)], the authors obtain precise a priori estimates with best constants for the solutions of the fractional diffusion equation \(\partial_t u+(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}A(u)=f\), \(0<\sigma <2\), \(0<m\leq 1\). Some extra regularity conditions are accepted as needed, like \(A\) being smooth with \(A'(u) >0\) for all \(u >0\). The problem is posed in the whole space \(\mathbb{R}^N\). Special attention is paid to cases of the form \(A(u) =u^m\) with \(m >0\); the equation is then called the fractional heat equation when \(m =1\), the fractional porous medium equation if \(m >1\), and the fractional fast diffusion equation if \(m <1\). The linear equation \(\partial_t+(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}A(u)=0\) is a model of the so-called anomalous diffusion, a much studied topic in physics. Classical results for \(\sigma=2\) are recovered in the limit.



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