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Title Long time behavior of solutions to a non-linear non-homogenous heat equation

Name matteo Franca
Country Italy
Email franca@dipmat.univpm.it
Co-Author(s) Luca Bisconti
Submit Time 2014-02-27 05:24:18
Session
Special Session 67: Topological methods for the qualitative analysis of differential equations and inclusions
Contents
In this talk we consider a non-linear heat equation of the form $$u_t= \Delta u+ f(u,|x|)$$ and we assume that the non-linearity $f$ is supercritical with respect to $n/(n-2)$ in some weak sense. We prove local existence of regular and singular solutions and we use Fowler transformation in order to establish existence and separation properties of radial Ground States. Then we use these results to detect long time behavior of both radial and non-radial initial data. In particular we describe the threshold separating initial data in the basin of attraction of the null solution, from initial data which blow up in finite time. We show that such a border is made up by Ground States when $f$ is supercritical with respect to $(n+2)/(n-2)$, thus extending results by Wang, and Deng, Li, Liu to potential including the Matukuma case $f(u,r)= \frac{u^{q}}{1+r^a}$. We also obtain a family of sub and super-solutions which are new even for the original problem $f(u)=u^q$ for any $q>n/(n-2)$.