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A new critical phenomenon for semilinear parabolic problems
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    A new critical phenomenon for semilinear parabolic problems (English)
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    5 June 2001
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    The author studies the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous semilinear parabolic equation \(\Delta u + u^p - u_t + w = 0\) on \({\mathbb M}^n\times (0,\infty)\) with initial condition \(u_0\geq 0\). Here \({\mathbb M}^n\) is a Riemannian manifold and \(\Delta\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator on \({\mathbb M}^n\). The main result is the existence of an exponent \(p^*\) which is critical in the following sense. If \(1<p<p^*\), the problem has no global positive solution for any nonnegative \(w\not\equiv 0\) and any \(u_0\geq 0\), while if \(p>p^*\), then there exist \(w>0\) and \(u_0\geq 0\) such that the problem has a global positive solution. In the case \(p=p^*\) the problem has no global positive solution if \(w\not\equiv 0\), provided \({\mathbb M}^n\) has nonnegative Ricci curvature. In the special case that \(w\equiv 0\) and \(M^*={\mathbb R}^n\) a similar phenomenon was discovered by \textit{H.~Fujita} [J. Fac. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Sect. I 13, 109-124 (1966; Zbl 0163.34002)]. The critical exponent found by Fujita is \((n+2)/n\). It is interesting that in the nonhomogeneous case \(w\not\equiv 0\) with \({\mathbb M}^n={\mathbb R}^n\), the critical exponent is \(n/(n-2)\), which is larger than Fujita's exponent.
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    Riemannian manifold
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    global positive solution
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