Fractional nonlinear degenerate diffusion equations on bounded domains. I: Existence, uniqueness and upper bounds.

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DOI10.1016/J.NA.2015.10.005zbMATH Open1328.35009arXiv1508.07871OpenAlexW2963931035MaRDI QIDQ897370FDOQ897370

Juan Luis Vázquez, Matteo Bonforte

Publication date: 17 December 2015

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate quantitative properties of nonnegative solutions u(t,x)ge0 to the nonlinear fractional diffusion equation, partialtu+mathcalLF(u)=0 posed in a bounded domain, xinOmegasubsetmathbbRN, with appropriate homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. As mathcalL we can use a quite general class of linear operators that includes the two most common versions of the fractional Laplacian (Delta)s, 0<s<1, in a bounded domain with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, but it also includes many other examples since our theory only needs some basic properties that are typical of "linear heat semigroups." The nonlinearity F is assumed to be increasing and is allowed to be degenerate, the prototype is the power case F(u)=|u|m1u, with m>1. In this paper we propose a suitable class of solutions of the equation, and cover the basic theory: we prove existence, uniqueness of such solutions, and we establish upper bounds of two forms (absolute bounds and smoothing effects), as well as weighted-L1 estimates. The class of solutions is very well suited for that work. The standard Laplacian case s=1 is included and the linear case m=1 can be recovered in the limit. In a companion paper [12], we will complete the study with more advanced estimates, like the upper and lower boundary behaviour and Harnack inequalities, for which the results of this paper are needed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07871




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