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A Liouville theorem for supercritical Fujita equation and its applications

Analysis of PDEs 2025-09-08 v2

Abstract

We prove a Liouville theorem for ancient solutions to the supercritical Fujita equation tuΔu=up1u,<t<0,p>n+2n2,\partial_tu-\Delta u=|u|^{p-1}u, \quad -\infty <t<0, \quad p>\frac{n+2}{n-2}, which says if uu is close to the ODE solution u0(t):=(p1)1p1(t)1p1u_0(t):=(p-1)^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}(-t)^{-\frac{1}{p-1}} at large scales, then it is an ODE solution (i.e. it depends only on tt). This implies a stability property for ODE blow ups in this problem. As an application of these results, we show that for a suitable weak solution, its singular set at the end time can be decomposed into two parts: one part is relatively open and (n1)(n-1)-rectifiable, and it is characterized by the property that tangent functions at these points are the two constants ±(p1)1p1\pm(p-1)^{-\frac{1}{p-1}}; the other part is relatively closed and its Hausdorff dimension is not larger than n[2p+1p1]1n-\left[2\frac{p+1}{p-1}\right]-1.

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@article{arxiv.2501.03574,
  title  = {A Liouville theorem for supercritical Fujita equation and its applications},
  author = {Kelei Wang and Juncheng Wei and Ke Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.03574},
  year   = {2025}
}

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43 pages, to appear in Indiana University Mathematics Journal