Remarks on a nonlocal problem involving the Dirichlet energy (Q2504912)

The authors study the following nonlinear parabolic problem of nonlocal type depending on the Dirichlet integral: find \(u=u\left( x,t\right) \) solution to \[ u_t-a\left( \int_\Omega \left| \nabla u\right| ^2\,dx\right) \Delta u=f\;\;in\;\Omega \times \mathbb R^+, \] \[ u\left( x,0\right) =u_0\left( x\right) \;in\;\Omega ,\;\;u=0\;on\;\partial \Omega \times R^{+}, \] where \(\Omega \) is a bounded, smooth open subset of \(\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 1\), \(f\in L^2( \Omega )\), \(u_0\in H_0^1(\Omega)\) and \(a=a(s)\) is a continuous function such that \(0<m\leq a\left( s\right) \leq M\). After proving the uniqueness and existence of the solution, the authors study the corresponding stationary problem and finally give some results concerning the asymptotic behaviour of the solution.