Optimal results for parabolic problems arising in some physical models with critical growth in the gradient respect to a Hardy potential (Q607336)

The authors consider a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a viscosity term. A special case of this equation is the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation. They prove that there is an optimal exponent \(p_+(\lambda)\), such that for any exponent greater of \(p_+(\lambda)\) there do not exist non-trivial local solutions; for any exponent less than \(p_+(\lambda)\) there exist non-trivial local solutions under suitable hypotheses on the data. To prove the existence results, the authors use the classical argument of truncations and pass to the limit. In the second part of the paper the authors analyze the behaviour of the solution of the Cauchy problem. This paper generalizes in the parabolic setting a paper by Abdellaoui and Peral where the elliptic case was considered.