Global existence and decay for viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations (Q4373349)

Continuing previous work of the second author [ibid. 19, 763-768 (1992; Zbl 0782.35009)], the authors prove three theorems concerning existence, uniqueness, maximum principle and decay properties of classical solutions of semilinear parabolic equations of the form: \[ u_t =\Delta u + \mu.|\nabla _xu|^p, \quad u(x,0)=u_0(x), \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n \times [0,\infty), \;\mu \neq 0, p>1. \] Theorem A states that if \(u_0(.) \in C_b^2(\mathbb{R}^n):=\{f(.)\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^n)\); \(f,\nabla f,\nabla^2f\in L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n)\}\) then the equation has a unique global classical solution that, in addition, has the following properties: \(u(.,t)\in C_b^2(\mathbb{R}^n)\) \(\forall t\in [0,\infty)\), \[ \sup_{\mathbb{R}^n\times [0,\infty)}u(x,t)= \sup_{\mathbb{R}^n}u_0(x), \quad \inf_{\mathbb{R}^n\times [0,\infty)}u(x,t)= \inf_{\mathbb{R}^n}u_0(x). \] Theorem B states that if \(0\leq u_0(.)\in C_b^2(\mathbb{R}^n)\cap L^1(\mathbb{R}^n), n>1,\mu<0, p<(n+2)/(n+1)\) then the solution decays in the sense that: \(\lim_{t\to \infty}\int_{\mathbb{R}^n}u(x,t) dx=0\) while the last theorem states that if \(0\leq u_0(.)\neq 0\), \(\mu <0\), \(p=2\) then there exists \(c>0\) such that: \[ \int_{\mathbb{R}^n}u(x,t) dx\geq c \quad \forall t\in [0,\infty). \]