Weak self-adjointness and conservation laws for a porous medium equation

The concepts of self-adjoint and quasi self-adjoint equations were introduced by Ibragimov (2006, 2007) [4,7]. In Ibragimov (2007) [6] a general theorem on conservation laws was proved. In Gandarias (2011) [3] we generalized the concept of self-adjoint and quasi self-adjoint equations by introducing the definition of weak self-adjoint equations. In this paper we find the subclasses of weak self-adjoint porous medium equations. By using the property of weak self-adjointness we construct some conservation laws associated with symmetries of the differential equation.