Self-similar singular solutions of a \(p\)-Laplacian evolution equation with absorption (Q1874481)

The authors study the self-similar singular solutions to the equation \[ v_t = \text{div} (|\nabla v|^{p-2} \nabla v) - v^q \quad \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^n \times (0,\infty), \] with \(p \in (1,2)\), \(q>1\). To this end the corresponding ODE is studied \[ (|w'|^{p-2}w'' + (n-1)|w'|^{p-2}w'/r + \alpha(\beta r w'+w) - w^q = 0, \;\forall r>0, \] \[ w'(0) = 0, \;w(r) \geq 0 \;\text{in} \;[0,\infty), \;\lim_{r \to \infty} r^{1/ \beta} w(r) = 0, \] with \(\alpha = 1/(q-1)\), \(\beta = (q+1-p)/p\). It is shown that the above ODE possesses a unique solution if \(q < p-1+p/n\) and that the corresponding self-similar singular solution to the PDE is such that \(\int_{\mathbb{R}^n} v^{n \beta} (x, \cdot) dx = \text{const}\) and \[ \lim_{t \to 0, \;t>0} \int_{|x|< \varepsilon} v(x,t) dx = \infty, \;\forall \varepsilon > 0. \]