The fractional porous medium equation on the hyperbolic space

Abstract

We consider a nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation of porous medium type, whose diffusion is driven by the (spectral) fractional Laplacian on the hyperbolic space. We provide existence results for solutions, in an appropriate weak sense, for data belonging either to the usual $$L^p$$ spaces or to larger (weighted) spaces determined either in terms of a ground state of $$\Delta _{\mathbb {H}^{N}}$$ , or of the (fractional) Green’s function. For such solutions, we also prove different kind of smoothing effects, in the form of quantitative $$L^1-L^\infty $$ estimates. To the best of our knowledge, this seems the first time in which the fractional porous medium equation has been treated on non-compact, geometrically non-trivial examples.