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Instantaneous regularisation via Harnack-type methods for a degenerate non-local equation
Abstract
We prove an instantaneous smoothing effect for a degenerate non-local evolution equation (originally derived as the many-particle limit of a system of active Brownian particles). The underlying mechanism is that, by deriving a Harnack-type inequality for an averaged quantity, we are able to show that the equation becomes strongly parabolic for positive times, and thus self-regularising. This paper is a significant improvement of a previous work, where additional (weak) non-degeneracy assumptions were imposed on the initial data. Herein, we completely remove these assumptions, and prove (in addition to the regularity bootstrap) quantitative estimates on the aforementioned averaged quantity by means of an approach à la Bombieri-Giusti.
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BibTeX
@misc{schulz2026instantaneous,
title = {{Instantaneous regularisation via Harnack-type methods for a degenerate non-local equation}},
author = {Simon M. Schulz},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08434},
eprint = {2610.08434},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08434},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Instantaneous regularisation via Harnack-type methods for a degenerate non-local equation
AU - Simon M. Schulz
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08434
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08434
AB - We prove an instantaneous smoothing effect for a degenerate non-local evolution equation (originally derived as the many-particle limit of a system of active Brownian particles). The underlying mechanism is that, by deriving a Harnack-type inequality for an averaged quantity, we are able to show that the equation becomes strongly parabolic for positive times, and thus self-regularising. This paper is a significant improvement of a previous work, where additional (weak) non-degeneracy assumptions were imposed on the initial data. Herein, we completely remove these assumptions, and prove (in addition to the regularity bootstrap) quantitative estimates on the aforementioned averaged quantity by means of an approach à la Bombieri-Giusti.
ER -