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Global wellposedness for the 3D Muskat problem with medium size slope

Analysis of PDEs 2020-02-04 v1

Abstract

We prove the existence and uniqueness of global, classical solutions to the 3D Muskat problem in the stable regime whenever the initial interface has sublinear growth and slope xf0L<51/2||\nabla_x f_0||_{L^\infty}< 5^{-1/2}. We show under these assumptions that the equation is fundamentally parabolic, satisfying a comparison principle. Applying the modulus of continuity technique, we show that rough initial data instantly becomes C1,1C^{1,1} with the curvature decaying like O(t1)O(t^{-1}).

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@article{arxiv.2002.00508,
  title  = {Global wellposedness for the 3D Muskat problem with medium size slope},
  author = {Stephen Cameron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00508},
  year   = {2020}
}

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36 pages

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