Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for the nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations (Q2495026)

The article deals the nonexistence of positive solutions to the following nonlinear parabolic equation: \[ \begin{alignedat}{2} & u_t = Lu + V(w)u^{p-1}&&\quad \text{in } \Omega\times (0,T),\;1 < p < 2, \\ & u(w,0) = u_0(w) \geq 0,&&\quad \text{in } \Omega,\\ & u(w,t) = 0&&\quad \text{on } \partial\Omega \times (0,T), \end{alignedat} \] where \(\Omega\) is a Carnot-Carathéodory metric ball in \(\mathbb R^{2n+1}\) and \(v \in L_{\text{loc}}^1(\Omega)\). The nonlinear operator \(L\) is the subelliptic \(p\)-Laplacian \[ Lu = \sum_{j=1}^{2n}X_j(| Xu| ^{p-2}X_ju), \] where \[ X_j = \frac{\partial}{\partial x_j} + 2ky_j| z| ^{2k-2}\frac{\partial}{\partial l},\quad X_{n+j} = \frac{\partial}{\partial y_j} - 2kx_j| z| ^{2k-2}\frac{\partial}{\partial l},\quad j = 1,\dots,n. \] are the smooth vector fields satisfying Hörmander condition for any \(k\in N\). Here \(Xu = (X_1u,\dots,X_{2n}u)\). The main result reads: Let \((4n + 4k)/(2n + 2k + 1) \leq p <2\) and \(V \in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\Omega\setminus K)\), where \(K\) is a closed Lebesgue null subset of \(\Omega\). If \[ \inf_{0\neq \phi \in C_{c}^{\infty}}\frac{\int_{\Omega}| X\phi| ^{p}\,dw - \int_{\Omega}(1-\epsilon)V| \phi| ^p\,dw}{\int_{\Omega}| \phi| ^p\,dw} = -\infty \] for some \(\epsilon > 0\), then the above mentioned problem has no general positive solution exterior to \(K\).