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A blow-up dichotomy for semilinear fractional heat equations (2020)
Journal Article

We derive a blow-up dichotomy for positive solutions of fractional semilinear heat equations on the whole space. That is, within a certain class of convex source terms, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition on the source for all positive... Read More about A blow-up dichotomy for semilinear fractional heat equations.

Well-posedness of semilinear heat equations in L1 (2019)
Journal Article

The problem of obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for local existence of non-negative solutions in Lebesgue spaces for semilinear heat equations having monotonically increasing source term f has only recently been resolved (Laister et al.... Read More about Well-posedness of semilinear heat equations in L1.

A necessary and sufficient condition for uniqueness of the trivial solution in semilinear parabolic equations (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. In their (1968) paper Fujita and Watanabe considered the issue of uniqueness of the trivial solution of semilinear parabolic equations with respect to the class of bounded, non-negative solutions. In particular they showed that i... Read More about A necessary and sufficient condition for uniqueness of the trivial solution in semilinear parabolic equations.

A complete characterisation of local existence for semilinear heat equations in Lebesgue spaces (2015)
Journal Article

We consider the scalar semilinear heat equation ut−Δu=f(u), where f:[0,∞)→[0,∞) is continuous and non-decreasing but need not be convex. We completely characterise those functions f for which the equation has a local solution bounded in Lq(Ω) for all... Read More about A complete characterisation of local existence for semilinear heat equations in Lebesgue spaces.

Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains (2014)
Journal Article

We establish a local non-existence result for the equation ut-δu=f(u) with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a smooth bounded domain Ω⊂Rn and initial data in Lq(Ω) when the source term f is non-decreasing and limsups→∞s-γf(s)=∞ for some exponent γ>q(1... Read More about Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heat equations of Osgood type in bounded domains.

Non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type (2013)
Journal Article

We establish non-existence results for the Cauchy problem of some semilinear heat equations with non-negative initial data and locally Lipschitz, non-negative source term f. Global (in time) solutions of the scalar ODE v;=f(v) exist for v(0)>0 if and... Read More about Non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type.

Gaussian lower bounds on the Dirichlet heat kernel and non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type (2013)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

© 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)
Journal Article

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.