Positivity, local smoothing, and Harnack inequalities for very fast diffusion equations

dc.creatorBonforte, Matteo
dc.creatorVazquez, Juan Luis
dc.date2008-05-30
dc.date2008-12-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:05:51Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:05:51Z
dc.descriptionWe investigate qualitative properties of local solutions $u(t,x)\ge 0$ to the fast diffusion equation, $\partial_t u =Δ(u^m)/m$ with $m<1$, corresponding to general nonnegative initial data. Our main results are quantitative positivity and boundedness estimates for locally defined solutions in domains of the form $[0,T]\times\RR^d$. They combine into forms of new Harnack inequalities that are typical of fast diffusion equations. Such results are new for low $m$ in the so-called very fast diffusion range, precisely for all $m\le m_c=(d-2)/d.$ The boundedness statements are true even for $m\le 0$, while the positivity ones cannot be true in that range.
dc.description36 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4823
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4823
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/208488
dc.subjectAnalysis of PDEs
dc.subject35B45, 35B65, 35K55, 35K65
dc.titlePositivity, local smoothing, and Harnack inequalities for very fast diffusion equations
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