## Nondegeneracy of blow up for semilinear heat equations.(English)Zbl 0703.35020

This paper is a rather comprehensive treatment of the blow up of solutions to the equation $u_ t-\Delta u-| u|^{p- 1}u=0\text{ in } D\times (0,T),$ with zero boundary data. Here D is a domain in $${\mathbb{R}}^ n$$, u is scalar-valued, and $$p>1.$$
A first set of results is concerned more generally with the solutions of the parabolic differential inequality $$| v_ t-\Delta v| \leq k(1+| v|^ p),$$ $$k>0$$ in a cylinder $$Q_ r=B_ r(a)\times (t_ 1-r^ 2,t_ 1),$$ $$0<r\leq 1$$. For instance it is proved that if $$| v(x,t)| \leq \epsilon (t_ 1-t)^{-1/(p-1)}$$ in $$Q_ r$$ for some appropriate $$\epsilon =\epsilon (k,p,n)$$, then $$(a,t_ 1)$$ is not a blow up point for v.
Another interesting conclusion regards a sufficient condition for excluding blow up of u at a given point in terms of the smallness of an energy-type functional. The behaviour of solutions near blow up points is characterized by the so-called blow up limit, showing that tending to blow up point (a,T) along parabolas $$x=a+y(T-t)^{1/2},$$ the limit of $$(T-t)^{1/(p-1)}u$$ has to be $$\pm (p-1)^{-1/(p-1)}.$$ In addition, the authors describe the structure of the blow up set and they present some extensions to more general equations.
Reviewer: A.Fasano

### MSC:

 35B40 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs 35K60 Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations

### Keywords:

parabolic differential inequality; blow up limit
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