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Regularity of solutions and interfaces of the porous medium equation via local estimates*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Juan Luis Vazquez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain

Synopsis

We prove C regularity for moving interfaces of local solutions of the porous medium equation as well as C lateral regularity for the pressure function near such an interface.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1989

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