Global solutions of a semilinear parabolic equation (Q1575796)

The authors study radial solutions of the initial Dirichlet problem for the equation \(u_t=\Delta u+\lambda e^u\) on the \(N\)-dimensional unit ball for \(3\leq N\leq 9\). It is shown that every global classical solution is uniformly bounded while unbounded global \(L^1\)-solutions are constructed for some \(\lambda\). The proofs are based on zero number arguments. Similar results for the equation \(u_t=\Delta u^m+u^p\) with supercritical \(p\) were obtained by \textit{V. A. Galaktionov} and \textit{J. L.~Vázquez} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 50, No. 1, 1-67 (1997; Zbl 0874.35057)].