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Local H\"older Regularity For Nonlocal Porous Media And Fast Diffusion Equations With General Kernel

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-23 v1

Abstract

We show that locally bounded, local weak solutions to certain nonlocal, nonlinear diffusion equations modeled on the fractional porous media and fast diffusion equations given by \begin{align*} \partial_t u + (-\Delta)^s(|u|^{m-1}u) = 0 \quad \mbox{ for } \quad 0<s<1 \quad\text{and}\quad m>0 \end{align*} are locally H\"older continuous. We work with bounded, measurable kernels and provide the corresponding LlocCloc0,αL^{\infty}_{loc} \rightarrow C^{0,\alpha}_{loc} De Giorgi-Nash-Moser theory for the equation via a delicate analysis of the set of singularity/degeneracy in a geometry dictated by the solution itself and a careful analysis of far-off effects. In particular, our results are in the spirit of interior regularity, requiring the equation to hold only locally, and thus are new even for positive solutions of the equation with constant coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2504.15735,
  title  = {Local H\"older Regularity For Nonlocal Porous Media And Fast Diffusion Equations With General Kernel},
  author = {Kyeongbae Kim and Ho-Sik Lee and Harsh Prasad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15735},
  year   = {2025}
}

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