Liouville theorems for scaling invariant superlinear parabolic problems with gradient structure

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Abstract: We provide a simple method for obtaining new Liouville theorems for scaling invariant superlinear parabolic problems with gradient structure. To illustrate the method we prove Liouville theorems (guaranteeing nonexistence of positive classical solutions) for the following model problems: the scalar nonlinear heat equation u_t-Delta u=u^p qquadhbox{in} {mathbb R}^n imes{mathbb R}, its vector-valued generalization with a p-homogeneous nonlinearity and the linear heat equation in mathbbR+nimesmathbbR complemented by nonlinear boundary conditions of the form partialu/partialu=uq. Here u denotes the outer unit normal on the boundary of the halfspace mathbbR+n and the exponents p,q>1 satisfy p<n/(n2) and q<(n1)/(n2) if n>2 (or p<(n+2)/(n2) and q<n/(n2) if n>2 and some symmetry of the solutions is assumed). As a typical application of our nonexistence results we provide optimal universal estimates for positive solutions of related problems in bounded and unbounded domains.



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