Blow-up of solutions of nonlinear heat equations in unbounded domains for slowly decaying initial data (Q5956222)

The author considers the equations \[ u_t-\Delta u=u^p,\quad u_t-\Delta u=u^p-\mu |\nabla u|^q,\quad u_t-\Delta u=u^p-a\cdot \nabla (u^q), \] in \(\Omega\subset {\mathbb R}^d.\) For any unbounded domain \(\Omega,\) intermediate between a cone and a strip, it is obtained a sufficient condition on the decay at infinity of initial data that guarantees blow-up. This condition is related to the geometry of \(\Omega.\) For instance, if \(\Omega\) is the interior of a revolution surface of the type \(|x'_d|<f(|x_d|),\) then the condition on the initial data \(\Phi\) is given by \(\Phi(x)> C f(|x|)^{-2/(p-1)}\) at infinity. It is proved, further, that for a large class of domains those results are optimal, i.e., there exist global solutions with the same order of decay at infinity for their initial data.