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We develop a theory of existence and uniqueness for the following porous medium equation with fractional diffusion, $$ \{ll} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t} + (-\Delta)^{\sigma/2} (|u|^{m-1}u)=0, & \qquad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\; t>0, [8pt]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Arturo de Pablo , Fernando Quirós , Ana Rodríguez , Juan Luis Vázquez

A classification of the behavior of the solutions $f(\cdot,a)$ to the ordinary differential equation $(|f'|^{p-2} f')' + f - |f'|^{p-1} = 0$ in $(0,\infty)$ with initial condition $f(0,a)=a$ and $f'(0,a)=0$ is provided, according to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Razvan Iagar , Philippe Laurençot

We study nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem for the Fractional Fast Diffusion Equation on a suitable class of connected, noncompact Riemannian manifolds. This parabolic equation is both singular and nonlocal: the diffusion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Elvise Berchio , Matteo Bonforte , Gabriele Grillo

This paper is concerned with the weak solution for the fast diffusion equation with absorption and singularity in the form of $u_t=\triangle u^m -u^p$. We first prove the existence and decay estimate of weak solution when the fast diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Changping Xie , Shaomei Fang , Ming Mei , Yuming Qin

Existence and uniqueness of radially symmetric self-similar very singular solutions are proved for the singular diffusion equation with gradient absorption {equation*} \partial_t u -\Delta_{p}u+|\nabla u|^q=0, \ \hbox{in} \…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Philippe Laurencot

We consider a stochastic heat equation of the type, $\partial_t u = \partial^2_x u + \sigma(u)\dot{W}$ on $(0\,,\infty)\times[-1\,,1]$ with periodic boundary conditions and on-degenerate positive initial data, where $\sigma:\mathbb{R}…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Davar Khoshnevisan , Kunwoo Kim , Carl Mueller

We study the extinction behavior of solutions to the fast diffusion equation $u_t = \Delta u^m$ on $\R^N\times (0,T)$, in the range of exponents $m \in (0, \frac{N-2}{N})$, $N > 2$. We show that if the initial data $u_0$ is trapped in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

In this paper, we investigate the extinction behavior of nonnegative solutions to the Sobolev critical fast diffusion equation in bounded smooth domains with the Dirichlet zero boundary condition. Under the two-bubble energy threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Tianling Jin , Jingang Xiong

We consider a class of porous medium type of equations with Caputo time derivative. The prototype problem reads as $\Dc u=-\A u^m$ and is posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with zero Dirichlet boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Matteo Bonforte , Maria Gualdani , Peio Ibarrondo

We study the large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the singular diffusion equation with gradient absorption $$ \partial_t u-\Delta_{p}u+|\nabla u|^q=0 \quad \hbox{in} \ (0,\infty)\times\real^N, $$ for $p_c:=2N/(N+1)

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-17 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Philippe Laurencot

Extinction times in resampling processes are fundamental yet often intractable, as previous formulas scale as $2^M$ with the number of states $M$ present in the initial probability distribution. We solve this by treating multinomial updates…

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Let $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\alpha=\frac{2\beta-1}{1-m}$ and $\frac{2}{1-m}<\frac{\alpha}{\beta}<\frac{n-2}{m}$. We give a new direct proof using fixed point method on the existence of singular radially symmetric forward…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Kin Ming Hui , Jongmyeong Kim

The large time behavior of general solutions to a class of quasilinear diffusion equations with a weighted source term $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+\varrho(x)u^p, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times(0,\infty), $$ with $m>1$, $1<p<m$ and suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Marta Latorre , Ariel Sánchez

We study positive solutions of the super-fast diffusion equation in the whole space with initial data which are unbounded as $|x|\to\infty$. We find an explicit dependence of the slow temporal growth rate of solutions on the initial spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-16 Marek Fila , Michael Winkler

We consider the inhomogeneous Landau equation with $\gamma \in (\sqrt{3},2]$ and construct smooth, strictly positive initial data that develop a finite time singularity. The $C^{\alpha}$-norm of the distribution function blows up for every…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Jacob Bedrossian , Jiajie Chen , Maria Pia Gualdani , Sehyun Ji , Vlad Vicol , Jincheng Yang

In this work we are interested in the study of a class of anisotropic porous medium-type equations whose prototype is \[ u_t =\sum_{i=1}^N \left( m_i u^{m_i-1} u_{x_i} \right)_{x_i} \ , \qquad 0<m_1 \leq \cdots \leq m_N <1 \ , \] for which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Eurica Henriques , Simone Ciani

We study the large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the nonlinear diffusion equation with critical gradient absorption $$\partial\_t u - \Delta\_{p}u + |\nabla u|^{q\_*} = 0 \quad \hbox{in} (0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^N\ ,$$ for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Philippe Laurençot

We consider the nonlinear heat equation $u_t-\Delta u =|u|^p+b |\nabla u|^q$ in $(0,\infty)\times \R^n$, where $n\geq 1$, $p>1$, $q\geq 1$ and $b>0$. First, we focus our attention on positive solutions and obtain an optimal Fujita-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Mohamed Jleli , Bessem Samet , Philippe Souplet

The Fast Diffusion Equation (FDE) $u_t= \Delta u^m$, with $m\in (0,1)$, is an important model for singular nonlinear (density dependent) diffusive phenomena. Here, we focus on the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem posed on smooth bounded Euclidean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Matteo Bonforte , Alessio Figalli

We classify the self-similar blow-up profiles for the following reaction-diffusion equation with critical strong weighted reaction and unbounded weight: $$ \partial_tu=\partial_{xx}(u^m) + |x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for $x\in\real$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Ariel Sánchez