Loss of boundary conditions for fully nonlinear parabolic equations with superquadratic gradient terms (Q1686101)

The authors study whether the solutions of a fully nonlinear, uniformly parabolic equation with superquadratic growth in the gradient satisfy initial and homogeneous boundary conditions in the classical sense. The main results consists in proving the non-existence of global-in-time solutions of this problem with too large initial data, and the existence of local-in-time solutions for initial data \(C^1\) up to the boundary. The importance of this result comes from the fact that the global existence is known when boundary conditions are understood in the viscosity sense. Hence, this result implies loss of boundary conditions in finite time. Specifically, a solution satisfying homogeneous boundary conditions in the viscosity sense eventually becomes strictly positive at some point of the boundary.