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Porous Medium Equation with A Drift: Free boundary Regularity

Analysis of PDEs 2021-08-12 v2

Abstract

We study regularity properties of the free boundary for solutions of the porous medium equation with the presence of drift. We show the C1,αC^{1,\alpha} regularity of the free boundary, when the solution is directionally monotone in space variable in a local neighborhood. The main challenge lies in establishing a local non-degeneracy estimate (Theorem 1.3 and Proposition 1.5), which appears new even for the zero drift case.

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@article{arxiv.1812.08770,
  title  = {Porous Medium Equation with A Drift: Free boundary Regularity},
  author = {Inwon Kim and Yuming Paul Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08770},
  year   = {2021}
}

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39 pages, 1 figure

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