Local solvability of a fully nonlinear parabolic equation (Q487287)

The paper deals with of local (in time) existence and finite time blow-up of positive solutions to the Cauchy-Neumann problem \[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu=g(u)\big(\lambda^2\Delta u+u\big)_+ & x\in\Omega,\;t>0,\\ \partial_\nu u=0 & x\in\partial\Omega,\;t>0,\\ u=\phi & x\in\Omega,\;t=0,\\ \end{cases} \] where \(g(u)\) is a positive continuous function on \((0,\infty),\) \((s)_+\) is the positive part of \(s\in\mathbb{R},\) \(\lambda>0\) is a fixed constant and \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^N\) is a bounded and smooth domain. To show the local solvability, the author reformulates the equation as a mixed form of two different sorts of doubly nonlinear evolution equations in order to apply an energy method. Some approximate problems are also introduced and the global (in time) solvability is proved for these with the aid of convex analysis, energy methods and some peculiar properties of the nonlinearities considered. The local existence and finite time blow-up of the positive solutions are obtained as a consequence of some particular types of comparison principles.