Instantaneous shrinking of the support in degenerate parabolic equations with strong absorption (Q2501599)

The author studies the phenomenon of instantaneous shrinking of the support of nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem in \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\) for \(u_{t}=f(u) \triangle u-g(u)\), where \(f(0)=0\). By means of comparison and integral techniques it is shown that a necessary and sufficient condition on the growth of \(g\) near zero for instantaneous shrinking to occur is \(\int^{1}_{0} (g(s)^{-1})\,ds <\infty\).