arXiv · 1907.08992
Supersolutions for parabolic equations with unbounded diffusion and its applications to some classes of parabolic and hyperbolic equations
Abstract
This paper is concerned with supersolutions to parabolic equations of the form \begin{equation} \partial_t U (x,t)-D(x)\Delta U(x,t)=0, \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^N \times (0,\infty), \end{equation} where $D\in C(\mathbb{R}^N)$ is positive. Under the behavior of the diffusion coefficient $D$ with polynomial order at spatial infinity, a family of supersolutions with slowly decaying property at spatial infinity is provided. As a first application, weighted $L^2$ type decay estimates for the initial-boundary value problem of the corresponding parabolic equation are proved. The second application is the study of the exterior problem of wave equations with space-dependent damping terms. By using supersolutions provided above, energy estimates with polynomial weight and diffusion phenomena are shown.
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Motohiro Sobajima, Yuta Wakasugi. 2019-07-21. Supersolutions for parabolic equations with unbounded diffusion and its applications to some classes of parabolic and hyperbolic equations. https://doi.org/10.2969/jmsj%2F83928392
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