Gaussian lower bounds on the Dirichlet heat kernel and non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type (2013)
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Laister, R., Robinson, J. C., & Sierzega, M. (2013). Gaussian lower bounds on the Dirichlet heat kernel and non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type

We give a simple proof of a lower bound for the Dirichlet heat kernel in terms of the Gaussian heat kernel. Using this we establish a non-existence result for semilinear heat equations with zero Dirichlet boundary conditions and initial data in $L^q... Read More about Gaussian lower bounds on the Dirichlet heat kernel and non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type.

Convergence to equilibrium in degenerate parabolic equations with delay (2013)
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Laister, R., & Laister, R. (2013). Convergence to equilibrium in degenerate parabolic equations with delay. Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, 81, 200-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.na.2012.10.019

© 2012 Elsevier Ltd In [11], Busenberg & Huang (1996) showed that small positive equilibria can undergo supercritical Hopf bifurcation in a delay-logistic reaction–diffusion equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Consequently, stable spatially... Read More about Convergence to equilibrium in degenerate parabolic equations with delay.

Finite time extinction in nonlinear diffusion equations (2004)
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Beardmore, R. E., Peplow, A. T., & Laister, R. (2004). Finite time extinction in nonlinear diffusion equations. Applied Mathematics Letters, 17(5), 561-567. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0893-9659%2804%2990126-7

We consider a class of degenerate diffusion equations where the nonlinearity is assumed to be singular (non-Lipschitz) at zero. It is shown that solutions with compactly supported initial data become identically zero in finite time. Such extinction f... Read More about Finite time extinction in nonlinear diffusion equations.

Sequential and continuum bifurcations in degenerate elliptic equations (2004)
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Beardmore, R. E., & Laister, R. (2004). Sequential and continuum bifurcations in degenerate elliptic equations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 132(01), 165-174. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-03-06979-X

We examine the bifurcations to positive and sign-changing solutions of degenerate elliptic equations. In the problems we study, which do not represent Fredholm operators, we show that there is a critical parameter value at which an infinity of bifurc... Read More about Sequential and continuum bifurcations in degenerate elliptic equations.

Trajectories of a DAE near a pseudo-equilibrium (2004)
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Beardmore, R. E., Laister, R., & Peplow, A. (2004). Trajectories of a DAE near a pseudo-equilibrium. Nonlinearity, 17(1), 253-279. https://doi.org/10.1088/0951-7715/17/1/015

We consider a class of differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) defined by analytic nonlinearities and study its singular solutions. The main assumption used is that the linearization of the DAE represents a Kronecker index-2 matrix pencil and that th... Read More about Trajectories of a DAE near a pseudo-equilibrium.

The flow of a DAE near a singular equilibrium (2003)
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Beardmore, R. E., & Laister, R. (2003). The flow of a DAE near a singular equilibrium. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 24(1), 106-120. https://doi.org/10.1137/S0895479800378660

We extend the differential-algebraic equation (DAE) taxonomy by assuming that the linearization of a DAE about a singular equilibrium has a particular index-2 Kronecker normal form. A Lyapunov-Schmidt procedure is used to reduce the DAE to a quasilin... Read More about The flow of a DAE near a singular equilibrium.

Transversality and separation of zeros in second order differential equations (2003)
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Laister, R., & Beardmore, R. E. (2003). Transversality and separation of zeros in second order differential equations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 131(1), 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06546-2

Sufficient conditions on the non-linearity f are given which ensure that non-trivial solutions of second order differential equations of the form Lu = f(t, u) have a finite number of transverse zeros in a given finite time interval. We also obtain a... Read More about Transversality and separation of zeros in second order differential equations.

Global asymptotic behaviour in some functional parabolic equations (2002)
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Laister, R. (2002). Global asymptotic behaviour in some functional parabolic equations. Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, 50(3), 347-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0362-546X%2801%2900766-0

The global asymptotic behavior in some functional parabolic equations was presented. The sufficient condition for the global convergence to a spatially uniform equilibrium in the system of functional partial differential equations was provided. Resul... Read More about Global asymptotic behaviour in some functional parabolic equations.

Instability of equilibria in some delay reaction-diffusion systems (2000)
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Laister, R. (2000). Instability of equilibria in some delay reaction-diffusion systems. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 247(2), 588-607. https://doi.org/10.1006/jmaa.2000.6883

A new result is derived which extends a known instability result for a class of reaction-diffusion equations to a corresponding system incorporating time delay effects. For a significant class of nonlinear equations it is shown that an unstable equil... Read More about Instability of equilibria in some delay reaction-diffusion systems.