Highly degenerate parabolic boundary value problems. (English) Zbl 0741.35030
The parabolic equations of the form \(\partial u/\partial t=\varphi(x,\nabla u)\Delta u\), where \(\varphi(x,\xi)>0\) on \(\Omega\times\mathbb{R}^ n\) \((\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^ n)\) and \(\varphi(x,\xi)\to 0\) arbitrarily rapidly as \(x\) approaches the boundary \(\partial\Omega\). The problem of finding boundary conditions which characterize the one-dimensional and multidimensional diffusions are given by Feller and Wentzel, respectively. Using a semigroup version, this problem was studied by Ph. Clement and C. A. Timmermans [e.g.: Indagationes Math. 48, 379-387 (1986; Zbl 0618.47035)]. Using Wentzel-type boundary conditions, the authors proved the well-posedness of the parabolic equation under consideration. This is done with the aid of the Crandall-Liggett theorem.
Reviewer: K.M.Ramachandran (Tampa)
MSC:
35K65 | Degenerate parabolic equations |
35K20 | Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations |
35K55 | Nonlinear parabolic equations |
35K60 | Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations |
47H06 | Nonlinear accretive operators, dissipative operators, etc. |
47H20 | Semigroups of nonlinear operators |
35B65 | Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs |
35K15 | Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations |