Published Paper

Inserted: 8 aug 2024
Last Updated: 19 aug 2024

Journal: Nonlinear Anal.
Year: 2024

Abstract:

The Fast Diffusion Equation (FDE) \[ u_t = \Delta u^m, \] with \( m \in (0, 1) \), is an important model for singular nonlinear (density dependent) diffusive phenomena. Here, we focus on the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem posed on smooth bounded Euclidean domains. In addition to its physical relevance, there are many aspects that make this equation particularly interesting from the pure mathematical perspective. For instance: mass is lost and solutions may extinguish in finite time, merely integrable data can produce unbounded solutions, classical forms of Harnack inequalities (and other regularity estimates) fail to be true, etc.

In this paper, we first provide a survey (enriched with an extensive bibliography) focusing on the more recent results about existence, uniqueness, boundedness, and positivity (i.e., Harnack inequalities, both local and global), and higher regularity estimates (also up to the boundary and possibly up to the extinction time). We then prove new global (in space and time) Harnack estimates in the subcritical regime. In the last section, we devote special attention to the asymptotic behavior, from the first pioneering results to the latest sharp results, and we present some new asymptotic results in the subcritical case.

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