On the blow-up results for a class of strongly perturbed semilinear heat equations (Q2260740)

The author studies classical solutions to the semilinear heat equation \[ u_t = \Delta u + |u|^{p-1} u + h(u), \quad (x,t) \in \mathbb{R}^n \times (0,T), \eqno(1) \] endowed with initial data \(u_0 \in L^\infty (\mathbb{R}^n)\). Here, \(p >1\) with \((n-2)p < n+2\) is subcritical with respect to the Sobolev exponent and \(h \in C^1 (\mathbb{R}) \cap C^2 (\mathbb{R} \setminus \{0\})\) is a strong perturbation in the sense that \[ |h^{(j)} (z)| \leq M \left( {|z|^{p-j} \over \ln^a (2+z^2)} +1 \right), \quad j \in \{0,1 \}, \quad |h^{\prime \prime} (z) | \leq {|z|^{p-2} \over \ln^a (2+z^2)} \] for some constants \(M>0\) and \(a>1\). For blow-up solutions \(u\) to (1) with finite blow-up time \(T\), the author uses similarity variables and shows that the tranformed problem has a Lyapunov functional. This is then used to prove that type I blow-up occurs for (1), i.e., \[ \| u(t) \|_{L^\infty (\mathbb{R}^n)} \leq C (T-t)^{-{1 \over p-1}}, \quad t \in (t_0,T). \] Based on the latter estimate, the author further studies the asymptotic blow-up behavior. More precisely, it is proved that for any blow-up point \(x_0 \in \mathbb{R}^n\), \[ \lim\limits_{t \nearrow T} (T-t)^{{1 \over p-1}} u(x_0 + y \sqrt{T-t}, t) = \pm (p-1)^{-{1 \over p-1}} \] holds in an appropriate weighted \(L^2\) space as well as uniformly on compact subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^n\), and a classification of all asymptotic behaviors in the similarity variables is given. The strategy of most of the proofs is based on the methods for the unperturbed case \(h \equiv 0\) and a number of difficulties have to be overcome for their adaptation to (1).