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We consider the statistical nonlinear inverse problem of recovering the absorption term $f>0$ in the heat equation $$ \partial_tu-\frac{1}{2}\Delta u+fu=0 \quad \text{on $\mathcal{O}\times(0,\textbf{T})$}\quad u = g \quad \text{on…

We give a sufficient condition for non-existence of global nonnegative mild solutions of the Cauchy problem for the semilinear heat equation $u' = Lu + f(u)$ in $L^p(X,m)$ for $p \in [1,\infty)$, where $(X,m)$ is a $\sigma$-finite measure…

In this paper we obtain the precise description of the asymptotic behavior of the solution $u$ of $$ \partial_t u+(-\Delta)^{\frac{\theta}{2}}u=0\quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N\times(0,\infty), \qquad u(x,0)=\varphi(x)\quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf…

In this paper we develop an existence theory for the nonlinear initial-boundary value problem with singular diffusion $\partial_t u = \text{div}(k(x)\nabla G(u))$, $u|_{t=0}=u_0$ with Neumann boundary conditions $k(x)\nabla G(u)\cdot \nu =…

We consider the nonlinear eigenvalue problem $[D(u(t))u(t)']' + \lambda g(u(t)) = 0$, $u(t) > 0$, $t \in I := (0,1)$, $u(0) = u(1) = 0$, which comes from the porous media type equation. Here, $D(u) = pu^{2n} + \sin u$ ($n \in \mathbb{N}$,…

We characterize lower growth estimates for subsolutions in halfspaces of fully nonlinear partial differential equations on the form $$ F(x,u,Du,D^2u) = 0 $$ in terms of solutions to ordinary differential equations built solely upon a growth…

We are concerned with positive solutions of equation (E) $(-\Delta)^s u=f(u)$ in a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ ($N>2s$), where $s \in (\frac{1}{2},1)$ and $f\in C^{\alpha}_{loc}(\mathbb{R})$ for some $\alpha \in(0,1)$. We establish…

We establish a complete Widder Theory for the fractional fast diffusion equation. Our work focuses on nonnegative solutions satisfying a certain integral size condition at infinity. We prove that these solutions possess a Radon measure as…

We study existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to (F) $\partial\_t u+ (-\Delta)^\alphau+h(t, u)=0 $ in $(0,\infty)\times\R^N$,with initial condition $u(0,\cdot)=\nu$ in $\R^N$, where $N\ge2$, the operator $(-\Delta)^\alpha$is the…

In this paper, we introduce a modification of the free boundary problem related to optimal stopping problems for diffusion processes. This modification allows the application of this PDE method in cases where the usual regularity…

We prove the existence of global solutions to the energy-supercritical wave equation in R^{3+1} u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^N u = 0, u(0) = u_0, u_t(0) = u_1, 4<N<\infty, for a large class of radially symmetric finite-energy initial data.…

We consider a generalized degenerate diffusion equation with a reaction term $u_t=[A(u)]_{xx}+f(u)$, where $A$ is a smooth function satisfying $A(0)=A'(0)=0$ and $A(u),\ A'(u),\ A''(u)>0$ for $u>0$, $f$ is of monostable type in $[0,s_1]$…

We consider following fourth-order parabolic equation with gradient nonlinearity on the two-dimensional torus with and without advection of an incompressible vector field in the case $2<p<3$: \begin{equation*} \partial_t u + (-\Delta)^2 u =…

It is shown that semilinear parabolic evolution equations $u'=A+f(t,u)$ featuring H\"older continuous nonlinearities $ f=f(t,u)$ with at most linear growth possess global strong solutions for a general class of initial data. The abstract…

Consider the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear diffusion equation \begin{equation} \tag{P} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u=\Delta u^m+u^\alpha & \quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N\times(0,\infty),\\ u(x,0)=\lambda+\varphi(x)>0 &…

This paper deals with nonnegative solutions of the one dimensional degenerate parabolic equations with zero homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. To obtain an existence result, we prove a sharp gradient estimate of |u_x|. Besides, we…

We consider the highly nonlinear and ill-posed inverse problem of determining some general expression $F(x,t,u,\nabla_xu)$ appearing in the diffusion equation $\partial_tu-\Delta_x u+F(x,t,u,\nabla_xu)=0$ on $\Omega\times(0,T)$, with $T>0$…

We study the reaction-fractional-diffusion equation $u_t+(-\Delta)^{s} u=f(u)$ with ignition and monostable reactions $f$, and $s\in(0,1)$. We obtain the first optimal bounds on the propagation of front-like solutions in the cases where no…

Let $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\alpha=\frac{2\beta-1}{1-m}$ and $\frac{2}{1-m}<\frac{\alpha}{\beta}<\frac{n-2}{m}$. We give a new direct proof using fixed point method on the existence of singular radially symmetric forward…

Let $f_1,f_2$ be linearly independent solutions of $f''+Af=0$, where the coefficient $A$ is an analytic function in the open unit disc $\mathbb{D}$ of $\mathbb{C}$. It is shown that many properties of this differential equation can be…