Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4604419 Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (C) Non Linear Analysis 2012 16 Pages PDF
Abstract

We study the porous medium equation with emphasis on q-Gaussian measures, which are generalizations of Gaussian measures by using power-law distribution. On the space of q-Gaussian measures, the porous medium equation is reduced to an ordinary differential equation for covariance matrix. We introduce a set of inequalities among functionals which gauge the difference between pairs of probability measures and are useful in the analysis of the porous medium equation. We show that any q-Gaussian measure provides a nontrivial pair attaining equality in these inequalities.

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