| Abstract: |
| We study the blow-up rate for solutions of the subcritical semilinear heat equation. Type I blow-up means that the rate agrees with that of the associated ODE. In the Sobolev subcritical range, type I estimates have been proved for positive solutions in convex or general domains (Giga and Kohn, 1987; Quittner, 2021) and for sign-changing solutions in convex domains (Giga, Matsui and Sasayama, 2004). We extend these results to sign-changing solutions in possibly non-convex domains. The proof uses the Giga-Kohn energy together with a geometric inequality that controls the effect of non-convexity. As a corollary, we obtain blow-up of the scaling critical norm in the subcritical range. Based on joint work with Hideyuki Miura and Jin Takahashi (Institute of Science Tokyo). |
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