Critical curves for a degenerate parabolic equation with multiple nonlinearities (Q2272021)

In this paper the authors deal with the following degenerate parabolic equation with source \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}= \frac \partial {\partial x} \left( \left| \frac{ \partial u}{\partial x}\right|^{m-1} \frac{\partial u}{\partial x}\right)+ u^p, \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb R_+\times (0,+\infty), \] subject to a nonlinear boundary flux and initial value conditions \[ -\left| \frac{\partial u}{\partial x}\right|^{m-1} \frac{\partial u}{ \partial x}(0,t)= u^q(0,t), \quad t\in(0,+\infty), \] \[ u(x,0)= u_o(x),\quad x\in \mathbb R_+, \] where \(m>1\), \(p,q>0\) and \(u_o(x)\) is a bounded, continuous, nonnegative and nontrivial initial data. The authors are interested in the blow-up phenomenon. In their first result, the authors establish, for every \(m>1\), the critical global existence curve in \((p,q)\)-plane, which separates the region where every solution is global from the one where there exist blowing-up solutions. In the seconds result they establish the critical Fujita curve, which separates the region where every solution blows up from the region where there exist both global solutions and blowing-up solutions.