Nonsimultaneous quenching (Q1861753)

Positive solutions of the system \(u_t=u_{xx}-v^{-p}\), \(v_t=v_{xx}-u^{-q}\), \(p,q>0\), are studied. It is shown that for some choices of the parameters \(p\) and \(q\) there are initial data for which at a time \(t=T\in(0,\infty)\) one component of the solution vanishes at some point while the other stays bounded away from zero.