The aims of this paper are to discuss the extinction and positivity for the solution of the initial boundary value problem and Cauchy problem of ut = div（[↓△u^m｜p-2↓△u^m）. It is proved that the weak solution will be extinct for 1 〈 p ≤ 1 ＋ 1/m and will be positive for p 〉 1 ＋ 1/m for large t, where m 〉 0.
Hong Jun YUAN Song Zhe LIAN Chun Ling CAO Wen Jie GAO Xiao Jing XU
This paper deals with a class of doubly degenerate parabolic equations, including as particular cases the porous medium equation and the degenerate pLaplace equation （p 〉 2）ut-div（b（x,t,u）｜↓△u｜^p-2↓△u）=f（x,u,t）The initial-boundary value problem in a bounded domain of R^N is considered under mixed boundary conditions. The existence of local-in-time weak solutions is obtained.
