Symmetrization and Mass Comparison for Degenerate Nonlinear Parabolic and Related Elliptic Equations

Abstract

Abstract We consider the solutions to various nonlinear parabolic equations and their elliptic counterparts and prove comparison results based on two main tools, symmetrization and mass concentration comparison. The work focuses on equations like the porous medium equation, the filtration equation and the p-Laplacian equation. The results will be used in a companion work in combination with a detailed knowledge of special solutions to obtain sharp a priori bounds and decay estimates for wide classes of solutions of those equations.