The critical-time conjecture for stationary interfaces of the parabolic p-Laplace equation

Let uu solve the one-dimensional pp-parabolic boundary-value problem

utΔpu=0u_t- \Delta_p u=0

on (1,1)×(0,T)(-1,1)\times(0,T) with boundary values u(1,t)=0u(-1,t)=0, u(1,t)=1u(1,t)=1, and initial value u(x,0)=x+pp2u(x,0)=x_+^{\frac{p}{p-2}}. For the restriction to (0,1)×(0,T)(0,1)\times(0,T), let cpc_p and c0c_0 be the constants from the preceding finite-speed-of-propagation estimate, and set t^=(cpc0)p2\hat t=(c_p c_0)^{p-2}. Critical-time conjecture. The critical time t^=(cpc0)p2\hat t=(c_p c_0)^{p-2} is the largest time such that u(0,t)=0u(0,t)=0. This concerns whether the interface remains stationary exactly up to the time supplied by the estimate; the provided passage does not state whether the claim has been proved or disproved.

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Benny Avelin, “Boundary behavior of solutions to the parabolic p-Laplace equation II”, arXiv:1710.06616 (2020).

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