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Piecewise constant subsolutions for the Muskat problem

Analysis of PDEs 2018-09-26 v1

Abstract

We show the existence of infinitely many admissible weak solutions for the incompressible porous media equations for all Muskat-type initial data with C3,αC^{3,\alpha}-regularity of the interface in the unstable regime and for all non-horizontal data with C3,αC^{3,\alpha}-regularity in the stable regime. Our approach involves constructing admissible subsolutions with piecewise constant densities. This allows us to give a rather short proof where it suffices to calculate the velocity and acceleration at time zero - thus emphasizing the instantaneous nature of non-uniqueness due to discontinuities in the initial data.

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@article{arxiv.1709.05155,
  title  = {Piecewise constant subsolutions for the Muskat problem},
  author = {Clemens Förster and László Székelyhidi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.05155},
  year   = {2018}
}

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28 pages

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