Unbounded solutions for the Muskat problem

Abstract

We prove the local existence of solutions of the form $x^2+ct+g,$ with $g\in H^s(\mathbb{R})$ and $s\ge 3,$ for the Muskat problem in the stable regime. We use energy methods to obtain a bound of $g$ in Sobolev spaces. In the proof we deal with the loss of the Rayleigh-Taylor condition at infinity and a new structure of the kernels in the equation. Remarkably, these solutions grow quadratically at infinity.

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