Blow up and global existence of solutions to an inhomogeneous parabolic system (Q1268570)

The author studies the global existence and blow-up of positive solutions to the weakly coupled semilinear parabolic system \(u_t =\Delta u+v^p+w_1\), \(v_t=\Delta v+u^q+w_2\) \((p\geq q>0)\) in \(M^n \times (0, \infty)\) \((n\geq 3)\), where \(M^n\) is a noncompact complete Riemannian manifold, \(\Delta\) is the Laplace-Beltrami operator, \(w_1,w_2\) are non-negative \(L^1_{\text{loc}}\) functions. The main result is that if \(p(q+1)/(pq-1)<\alpha/2\), then the system under consideration has global positive solutions whenever \(w_1,w_2,u_0,v_0\) are non-negative and bounded. On the other hand if \(p(q+1)/(pq-1) >\alpha/2\), then the system possesses no global positive solutions for any \(w_1,w_2, u_0,v_0\geq 0\). Moreover, if the Ricci curvature of \(M^n\) is non-negative and \(p\geq q>1\), \(p(q+1)/(pq-1) =\alpha/2\) then the system possesses no global positive solutions for any \(w_1,w_2\) and any \(u_0\), \(v_0\geq 0\). An immediate consequence is a non-existence result for the inhomogeneous Lamé-Emden system.