Regularity of the interfaces with sign changes of solutions of the one-dimensional porous medium equation

DOI10.1006/JDEQ.2000.4002MaRDI QIDQ5957785zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shigeru Sakaguchi

Publication date 17 August 2002

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jdeq.2000.4002

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-Laplace equationdegenerate diffusion equationinitial-boundary value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Review text

Let \(u=u(x,t)\) be the solution of the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional evolution \(p\)-Laplace equation \(\partial_tu=\partial_x(|\partial_xu|^{p-2}\partial_xu)\) in \(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^+\) and \(u(x,0)=u_0(x)\) in \(\mathbb{R}\), with \(u_0\geq 0\), bouded and compactly supported in \(\mathbb{R}\). Let \(C(t)\) be the set of the spatial critical points of \(u\) where \(u\) is positive. It is known that there exists a time \(T\) such that for \(t>T\), \(C(t)=\{x(t)\}\) consists of the unique spatial maximum point of \(u(\cdot,t)\). Putting \(v=\partial_xu\), then \(v\) satisfies the porous medium equation with sign changes \(\partial_tv=\partial_x^2(|v|^{p-2}v)\) in \(\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^+\). Therefore, the curve \(x=x(t)\) may be regarded as an interface with sign changes of the solution \(v\) of the porous medium equation. This equation has been investigated by \textit{M. Bertsch} and \textit{D. Hilhorst} [Appl. Anal. 41, No. 1-4, 111-130 (1991; Zbl 0675.76094)], where they prove that, assuming certain monotonicity conditions on the initial function, there exist a time \(T\) after which the region where \(u<0\) and \(u>0\) are separated by an interface \(x=x(t)\) such that \(x(t)\) is continuously differentiable for \(t>T\). In the present paper, the regularity of the interface is investigated without assuming the a priori monotonicity of the initial function. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEMore precisely, by comparing the solution \(u(x,t)\) with appropriate symmetric solutions, the monotonicity near the interface after a finite time \(T\) is proved. After this, the method of Bertsch and Hilhorst applies. As a by-product of this result, the \(C^1\) regularity of the curve of the spatial maximum points of the solution of the Cauchy problem for the evolution \(p\)-Laplace equation for sufficiently large \(t\) follows.

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