TY - JOUR T1 - Regularity Results for a Strongly Degenerate Parabolic Equation JO - Journal of Partial Differential Equations VL - 3 SP - 275 EP - 283 PY - 1997 DA - 1997/10 SN - 10 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jpde/5597.html KW - Strongly degenerate parabolic equation KW - uniformly parabolic equation KW - supersolution AB - M. Bertsch & R. Dal Passo proved the existence and uniqueness of the Cauchy problem for u_t = (φ(u),ψ(u_x))_x, where φ > 0, ψ is a strictly increasing function with lim_{s → ∞}ψ(s) = ψ_∞ < ∞. The regularity of the solution has been obtained under the condition φ" < 0 or φ = const. In the present paper, under the condition φ" ≤ 0, we give some regularity results. We show that the solution can be classical after a finite time. Further, under the condition φ" ≤ -α_0 (where -α_0 is a constant), we prove the gradient of the solution converges to zero uniformly with respect to x as t → +∞.