Infinite speed of propagation and regularity of solutions to the fractional porous medium equation in general domains

From MaRDI portal
Publication:4978436




Abstract: We study the positivity and regularity of solutions to the fractional porous medium equations ut+(Delta)sum=0 in (0,infty)imesOmega, for m>1 and sin(0,1) and with Dirichlet boundary data u=0 in (0,infty)imes(mathbbRNsetminusOmega), and nonnegative initial condition u(0,cdot)=u0geq0. Our first result is a quantitative lower bound for solutions which holds for all positive times t>0. As a consequence, we find a global Harnack principle stating that for any t>0 solutions are comparable to ds/m, where d is the distance to partialOmega. This is in sharp contrast with the local case s=1, in which the equation has finite speed of propagation. After this, we study the regularity of solutions. We prove that solutions are classical in the interior (Cinfty in x and C1,alpha in t) and establish a sharp Cxs/m regularity estimate up to the boundary. Our methods are quite general, and can be applied to a wider class of nonlocal parabolic equations of the form utmathcalLF(u)=0 in Omega, both in bounded or unbounded domains.



Cites work


Cited in
(34)






This page was built for publication: Infinite speed of propagation and regularity of solutions to the fractional porous medium equation in general domains

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4978436)