Disappearance and global existence of interfaces for a doubly degenerate parabolic equation with variable coefficient

This paper deals with the Cauchy problem for a doubly degenerate parabolic equation with variable coefficient For the case λ + 1 ≥ N, one proves that depending on the behavior of the variable coefficient at infinity, the Cauchy problem either possesses the property of finite speed of propagation of perturbation or the support blows up in finite time. This completes a result by Tedeev (A.F.Tedeev, The interface blow‐up phenomenon and local estimates for doubly degenerate parabolic equations, Appl. Anal. 86 (2007) 755–782.), which asserts the same result under the condition λ + 1 < N. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.