Solutions with moving singularities for a semilinear parabolic equation (Q2378215)

The authors consider the Cauchy problem to the semilinear parabolic equation \[ u_t=\Delta u+ u^p,\quad t>0,\;x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \qquad u(x,0)= u_0(x),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N, \tag \(*\) \] where \(p> 1\) is a parameter and \(u_0\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}^N)\) is a nonnegative function. The function \(u(x, t)\) is said to be a solution of the above Cauchy problem with a moving singularity \(\xi(t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\) for \(t\in(0, T)\), where \(0< T\leq\infty\), if the following conditions hold: {\parindent=7mm \begin{itemize}\item[(i)] \(u,u^p\in C([0, T);L^1_{\text{loc}}))\) satisfy (*) in the distribution sense. \item[(ii)] \(u(x, t)\) is defined on \(\{(x, t)\in\mathbb{R}^{n+1}; x\in\mathbb{R}^N-\{\xi(t)\}\), \(t\in (0,T)\}\) and is twice continuously differentiable with respect to \(t\). \item[(iii)] \(u(x, t)\to\infty\) as \(x\to\xi(t)\) for every \(t\in(0, T)\). \end{itemize}} Assume that \(u_0(x)\), \(\xi(t)\) satisfy the following conditions: \(\xi(t)\in C^{i+\alpha}([0,\infty); \mathbb{R}^N)\) \((\alpha> 0)\) with \(i= [{[m- \lambda_2]+ 1\over 2}]+ 1\) and \(m= {2\over p-1}\); \(u_0\) is nonnegative and continuous in \(x\in\mathbb{R}^N- \{\xi(t)\}\), and is uniformly bounded for \(|x-\xi(t)|\geq 1\). (A.3) There are \(b_i(\omega,t)\) functions on \(S^{N-1}\times[0,\infty)\) such that \[ u_0(x)= L|x-\xi(t)|^{-m}\Biggl\{1+ \sum^{[m- \lambda_2]}_{i=1} b_i\Biggl({x- \xi(t)\over |x- \xi(t)|}, 0\Biggr)|x- \xi(t)|^i+ 0(|x- \xi(t)|^{m-\lambda_2+ \varepsilon}\Biggr\} \] as \(x\to\xi(0)\) for some \(\varepsilon> 0\), where \(L^{p-1}= m(N-m-2)\), \(\lambda_2= {N-2+ \sqrt{(N- 2)^2- 4pL^{p-1}}\over 2}\). Let \(N\geq 3\) and \({N\over N-2}< p< {N+2\sqrt{N-1}\over N- 4+2\sqrt{N-1}}\). Then the authors proved that there exists a solution of the above Cauchy problem with moving singularity \(\xi(t)\). Moreover, they showed the uniquness and comparision principle of solutions with moving singularity.