A specifically fully nonlinear perturbation of the heat equations in exterior domains (Q4032232)

Let \(G\subset\mathbb{R}^ n\) (\(n\geq 3\)) be an exterior domain with smooth and compact boundary \(\partial G\). Consider the global existence and asymptotic behavior of small solutions to the nonlinear parabolic equations \[ u_ t= \Delta u+ f(u,Du,D^ 2u) \text{ in } G\times(0,\infty), \quad u=0 \text{ on } \partial G\times(0,\infty), \quad u(0)=a \text{ in } G, \tag{1} \] where and in what follows \(u_ t=\partial u/\partial t\), \(\Delta\) = the Laplacian, \(D=D^ 1\) equals the gradient \((\partial/\partial x_ 1,\dots, \partial/\partial x_ n)\), \(D^ 2\) equals the Hessian matrix \([\partial^ 2/ \partial x_ i \partial x_ j]_{m\times n}\), and \(f\) satisfies the following conditions: \(f\in C^ 2 (\mathbb{C}^{1+n+n^ 2})\), \(f(w)=O(| w|^ 2)\) for small \(w\in\mathbb{C}^{1+n+n^ 2}\), \(f(u,Du,D^ 2 u)|_{\partial G}=0\) for \(u\in C^ 2(\overline {G})\) with \(u|_{\partial G}=0\). The purpose of this paper is to show that (1) has a unique global solution with the sharp decay rate \(t^{-n/2}\) provided \(a\) is small in an intermediate space between \(W^ 2_ 1(G)\cap C^ 2(\overline {G})\) and \(W^ 3_ 1(G)\cap C^ 3(\overline {G})\).