Global existence and blow-up of solutions to a parabolic system with nonlocal sources and boundaries (Q2465128)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain in \(\mathbb R^N\), \(m,n,p,q\geq0\), and let \(\varphi,\psi\in C(\partial\Omega\times\Omega)\) be nonnegative. The authors consider nonnegative classical solutions of the nonlocal parabolic system \(u_t=\Delta u+\int_\Omega u^mv^n\), \(v_t=\Delta v+\int_\Omega u^pv^q\), \(x\in\Omega\), \(t>0\), complemented by the nonlocal boundary conditions \(u(x,t)= \int_\Omega\varphi(x,y)u(y,t)\,dy\), \(v(x,t)= \int_\Omega\psi(x,y)v(y,t)\,dy\), \(x\in\partial\Omega\), \(t>0\). They find sufficient conditions on \(m,n,p,q,\varphi,\psi\) and on initial data guaranteeing global existence or blow-up in finite time. In the case of blow-up, they find necessary and sufficient conditions for simultaneous blow-up and they also study the blow-up set and the blow-up rate. The proofs are based on the comparison principle.