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Porous medium type reaction-diffusion equation: large time behaviors and regularity of free boundary

Analysis of PDEs 2024-08-30 v1

Abstract

We consider the Cauchy problem of the porous medium type reaction-diffusion equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t\rho=\Delta\rho^m+\rho g(\rho),\quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times \mathbb{R}_+,\quad n\geq2,\quad m>1, \end{equation*} where gg is the given monotonic decreasing function with the density critical threshold ρM>0\rho_M>0 satisfying g(ρM)=0g(\rho_M)=0. We prove that the pressure P:=mm1ρm1P:=\frac{m}{m-1}\rho^{m-1} in Lloc(Rn)L_{loc}^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n) tends to the pressure critical threshold PM:=mm1(ρM)m1P_M:=\frac{m}{m-1}(\rho_M)^{m-1} at the time decay rate (1+t)1(1+t)^{-1}. If the initial density ρ(x,0)\rho(x,0) is compactly supported, we justify that the support {x:ρ(x,t)>0}\{x: \rho(x,t)>0\} of the density ρ\rho expands exponentially in time. Furthermore, we show that there exists a time T0>0T_0>0 such that the pressure PP is Lipschitz continuous for t>T0t>T_0, which is the optimal (sharp) regularity of the pressure, and the free surface {(x,t):ρ(x,t)>0}{t>T0}\partial \{(x,t): \rho(x,t)>0\}\cap \{t>T_0\} is locally Lipschitz continuous. In addition, under the same initial assumptions of compact support, we verify that the free boundary {(x,t):ρ(x,t)>0}{t>T0}\partial \{(x,t): \rho(x,t)>0\}\cap \{t>T_0\} is a local C1,αC^{1,\alpha} surface.

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@article{arxiv.2408.16718,
  title  = {Porous medium type reaction-diffusion equation: large time behaviors and regularity of free boundary},
  author = {Qingyou He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.16718},
  year   = {2024}
}

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