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Global Existence for Nonlocal Quasilinear Diffusion Systems in Non-Isotropic Non-Divergence Form

Analysis of PDEs 2024-04-23 v1

Abstract

Consider the quasilinear diffusion problem {u+Π(t,x,u,Σu)Au=f(t,x,u,Σu) in ]0,T[×Ω,u=0 in ]0,T[×Ωc,u(0,)=u0() in Ω\begin{cases}\mathbf{u}'+\Pi(t,x,\mathbf{u},\Sigma \mathbf{u})\mathbb{A}\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{f}(t,x,\mathbf{u},\Sigma \mathbf{u})&\text{ in }]0,T[\times\Omega,\\\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{0}&\text{ in }]0,T[\times\Omega^c,\\\mathbf{u}(0,\cdot)=\mathbf{u}_0(\cdot)&\text{ in }\Omega\end{cases} for an open set ΩRn\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n, u0H0s(Ω):=[H0s(Ω)]m\mathbf{u}_0\in \mathbf{H}^s_0(\Omega):=[H^s_0(\Omega)]^m and any T]0,[T\in]0,\infty[, where ΣuRq\Sigma \mathbf{u}\in \mathbb{R}^q for 0<qm×n0<q\leq m\times n represents fractional or nonlocal derivatives with order σ\sigma with σ<2s\sigma<2s for all 0<s10<s\leq1, including the classical gradient and derivatives of order greater than 1. We show global existence results for various quasilinear diffusion systems in non-divergence form, for different linear operators A\mathbb{A}, including local elliptic systems, anisotropic fractional equations and systems, and anisotropic nonlocal operators, of the following type (Au)i=α,β,jα(Aijαββuj),Au=Ds(A(x)Dsu), and (Au)i=RnAij(x,y)uj(x)uj(y)xyn+2sdy,(\mathbb{A}\mathbf{u})^i=-\sum _{\alpha,\beta,j} \partial_\alpha(A^{\alpha\beta}_{ij}\partial_\beta u^j),\quad \mathbb{A}u=- D^s(A(x)D^su),\quad\text{ and }\quad (\mathbb{A}\mathbf{u})^i=\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}A_{ij}(x,y)\frac{u^j(x)-u^j(y)}{|x-y|^{n+2s}}\,dy, for coercive, invertible matrices Π\Pi and suitable vectorial functions f\mathbf{f}.

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@article{arxiv.2206.11415,
  title  = {Global Existence for Nonlocal Quasilinear Diffusion Systems in Non-Isotropic Non-Divergence Form},
  author = {Catharine W. K. Lo and José Francisco Rodrigues},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.11415},
  year   = {2024}
}