A comparison principle for the porous medium equation and its consequences

DOI10.4171/RMI/950MaRDI QIDQ529995zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Avelin, Teemu Lukkari

Publication date 9 June 2017

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07579

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic comparison principleobstacle problemparabolic capacityPMEporous medium equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Potentials and capacities on other spaces (31C15) Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Unilateral problems for nonlinear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with nonlinear parabolic operators (35K86)

Abstract: We prove a comparison principle for the porous medium equation in more general open sets in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ than space-time cylinders. We apply this result in two related contexts: we establish a connection between a potential theoretic notion of the obstacle problem and a notion based on a variational inequality. We also prove the basic properties of the PME capacity, in particular that there exists a capacitary extremal which gives the capacity for compact sets.

Review text

Summary: We prove a comparison principle for the porous medium equation in more general open sets in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) than space-time cylinders. We apply this result in two related contexts: we establish a connection between a potential theoretic notion of the obstacle problem and a notion based on a variational inequality. We also prove the basic properties of the PME capacity, in particular that there exists a capacitary extremal which gives the capacity for compact sets.

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