Finite time blow up and non-uniform bound for solutions to a degenerate drift-diffusion equation with the mass critical exponent under non-weight condition (Q2420676)

Let $n\ge 3$, $\alpha=2(n-1)/2$, and consider a non-negative initial condition $\varrho_0\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\cap L^\alpha(\mathbb{R}^n)$. It is already known that the degenerate drift-diffusion equation \[ \partial_t \varrho = \mathrm{div}\left( \nabla\varrho^\alpha - \varrho \nabla \psi \right)\ , \qquad t>0\ , \ x\in\mathbb{R}^n, \] with potential $\psi = (-\Delta)^{-1}\varrho$ (given by the convolution of $\varrho$ with the Poisson kernel) and initial condition $\varrho_0$ has a weak solution $\varrho$ defined on a maximal time interval $[0,T)$, $T\in (0,\infty]$. Moreover, there is $m_*>0$ (which is related to the optimal constant in a variant of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality) with the following property: if $\|\varrho_0\|_{L^1}< m_*$ or $\|\varrho_0\|_{L^1}=m_*$ and $\varrho_0\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^n, |x|^2 dx)$, then $T=\infty$. If $\varrho_0\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^n, |x|^2 dx)$ and \[ H[\varrho_0] = \frac{1}{\alpha-1} \|\varrho_0\|_{L^\alpha}^\alpha - \frac{1}{2} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \varrho_0 (-\Delta)^{-1}\varrho_0 dx < 0, \] then $\|\varrho_0\|_{L^1}>m_*$ and $T<\infty$. The finiteness of the second moment required for the blowup result is removed here and it is shown that, if $H[\varrho_0]<0$, then $\|\varrho_0\|_{L^1}>m_*$ and, either $T<\infty$, or $T=\infty$ and $\|\varrho(t)\|_{L^\alpha}\rightarrow \infty$ as $t\to \infty$. Assuming additionally that $\varrho_0$ is radially symmetric excludes the second alternative and thus implies that $T<\infty$ in that case.