Existence for the Discrete Nonlinear Fragmentation Equation with Degenerate Diffusion

Abstract

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly positive lower bound on the diffusion coefficients, extending previous results that were restricted to one-dimensional domains and relied on uniformly positive diffusion. The analysis is carried out under boundedness assumptions on the collision and breakage kernels. The proof is based on the construction of a suitable regularized system, combined with weak $L^2$ a priori estimates and compactness arguments in $L^1$, which allow the passage to the limit in the nonlinear fragmentation operator.