Extinction and positivity of the solutions of the heat equations with absorption on networks (Q536267)

The authors study the semilinear heat equation with absorption \(u_{t}=\Delta u-u^{q}\) with \(q>1\), which is said to be the \(\omega\)-heat equation with absorption on a network. The main concern is to investigate the large time behavior of nontrivial solutions of the equations whose initial data are nonnegative and the boundary data vanish. It is proved that the asymptotic behavior of the solutions \(u(x,t)\) as \(t \rightarrow \infty\) strongly depends on the sign of \(q-1\).