H\"older estimates for solutions of the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with external forces

TL;DR

This paper establishes quantitative, scale-invariant H"older regularity estimates for solutions of the porous medium equation with external forces, extending classical results to more complex, force-influenced scenarios.

Contribution

It provides the first quantitative H"older estimates for the porous medium equation with external forces, generalizing previous qualitative results.

Findings

Obtained scale-invariant H"older estimates for solutions with external forces.

Recovered classical H"older estimates for the linear heat equation as a special case.

Extended regularity results to degenerate parabolic equations with external influences.

Abstract

We study the interior H\"older regularity problem for weak solutions of the porous medium equation with external forces. Since the porous medium equation is the typical example of degenerate parabolic equations, H\"older regularity is a delicate matter and does not follow by classical methods. Caffrelli-Friedman, and Caffarelli-Vazquez-Wolansky showed H\"older regularity for the model equation without external forces. DiBenedetto and Friedman showed the H\"older continuity of weak solutions with some integrability conditions of the external forces but they did not obtain the quantitative estimates. The quantitative estimates are important for studying the perturbation problem of the porous medium equation. We obtain the scale invariant H\"older estimates for weak solutions of the porous medium equations with the external forces. As a particular case, we recover the well known H\"older estimates for the linear heat equation.