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Structure of the solutions to some nonlinear diffusion equations.

Optimization

Speaker: Allan Edelson, Mathematics, UC Davis
Location: 202 Wellman
Start time: Fri, Oct 6 2000, 4:10PM

We show that nonlinear equations derived from the porous medium equation have structures similar to the classical Matukuma equation. An identity related to the Pohozaev identity is seen to be useful in studying the radial solutions in $Rn$.