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Main Authors: Gómez-Castro, David, Płociniczak, Łukasz, Vázquez, Juan Luis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09281
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author Gómez-Castro, David
Płociniczak, Łukasz
Vázquez, Juan Luis
author_facet Gómez-Castro, David
Płociniczak, Łukasz
Vázquez, Juan Luis
contents We show the existence of self-similar solutions with constant finite mass to the time-fractional Porous-Medium Equation for all spatial dimensions $d \ge 1$ and all exponents $m>m_c=(d-2)_+/d$. This range is optimal. We find two types of solution depending on the exponent: compactly supported solutions in the slow-diffusion range $m > 1$ and positive solutions with heavy tails in the sub-critical fast-diffusion range $m_c < m < 1$. The self-similar solutions in the linear case $m=1$ were already known explicitly obtained by the Fourier transform, and we discuss their properties in our settings and the limit $m \to 1$.
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spellingShingle Self-similar solutions to the time-fractional Porous-Medium Equation
Gómez-Castro, David
Płociniczak, Łukasz
Vázquez, Juan Luis
Analysis of PDEs
We show the existence of self-similar solutions with constant finite mass to the time-fractional Porous-Medium Equation for all spatial dimensions $d \ge 1$ and all exponents $m>m_c=(d-2)_+/d$. This range is optimal. We find two types of solution depending on the exponent: compactly supported solutions in the slow-diffusion range $m > 1$ and positive solutions with heavy tails in the sub-critical fast-diffusion range $m_c < m < 1$. The self-similar solutions in the linear case $m=1$ were already known explicitly obtained by the Fourier transform, and we discuss their properties in our settings and the limit $m \to 1$.
title Self-similar solutions to the time-fractional Porous-Medium Equation
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09281