Some remarks on non local elliptic and parabolic problems (Q4378906)

The authors consider a class of nonlocal parabolic problems of the type \[ u_t- a\Biggl(\int_\Omega u(x,t)dx\Biggr)\Delta u= f\quad\text{in }\Omega\times(0, T); \] here \(a\) is a positive function and \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain in \(\mathbb{R}^n\). The authors prove that under Dirichlet boundary conditions and reasonable assumptions on the data the problem has a unique solution while its elliptic counterpart \(a\left(\int_\Omega u(x)dx\right)\Delta u= f\) in \(\Omega\) does not. A number of explicit computation and examples are given.