Infinite time blow-up for superlinear parabolic problems with localized reaction (Q4825632)

The author studies the following nonlocal parabolic problem \[ \begin{aligned} u_t-u_{xx}&=u^p(t,x_0(t)),\quad t>0,\;0<x<1,\\ u(t,0)&=u(t,1)=0,\quad t>0,\\ u(0,x)&=u_0(x),\quad 0<x<1,\end{aligned} \] where \(p>1,\) \(x_0:[0,\infty)\to (0,1)\) is a locally Hölder continuous function, and \(u_0\in C_0([0,1]),\) \(u_0\geq 0.\) It is known that if the curve \(x_0(t)\) remains in a compact subset of \((0,1)\) for all times, then blow-up cannot occur in infinite time. In the present paper, the author shows that the assumption on \(x_0\) is sharp: for all \(p>1,\) there exist \(x_0:[0,\infty)\to (0,1)\) of class \(C^1,\) such that \(\lim_{t\to\infty}x_0(t)=0,\) the existence time of the solution \(T^\ast(u_0)=\infty\) and \(\lim_{t\to\infty}| u(t,\cdot)| _\infty=\infty.\) The asymptotic behavior of the corresponding solution is precisely estimated and more general nonlinearities are also considered.