Critical exponents for the absence of solutions for systems of quasilinear parabolic inequalities (Q5951375)

The authors find sufficient conditions for nonexistence of global nontrivial nonnegative solutions of the system of parabolic inequalities \[ \partial_t u \geq \sum_{i=1}^n \partial_{x_i}(A\partial_{x_i}u)+bv^r, \qquad \partial_t v \geq \sum_{i=1}^n \partial_{x_i}(A\partial_{x_i}v)+cu^s, \qquad x\in\mathbb R^n,\;t>0, \] where \(r,s>0\) and \(A,b,c\) are locally bounded positive functions depending on \(x,t,u,v,\nabla u,\nabla v\). In the particular case \(A=b=c=1\), these conditions can be written in the form \(rs>1\), \(\max(r,s)+1>(rs-1)n/2\). These particular conditions are known to be optimal (up to the equality sign). The proofs are based on the nonlinear capacity method.