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\begin{abstract} Motivated by a classical stabilization result for solution to the Cauchy problem of the heat equation$\ \partial_{t}u=\bigtriangleup u\ $on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, we consider its oscillation behavior with radial initial data…
We study global behavior of radial solutions for the nonlinear wave equation with the focusing energy critical nonlinearity in three and five space dimensions. Assuming that the solution has energy at most slightly more than the ground…
We consider the six dimensional energy-critical semilinear heat equation with self-similarly decaying initial data. Our main result shows the existence of sign-changing solutions that exhibit infinite-time blow-up and nonnegative solutions…
We consider the semilinear heat equation, to which we add a nonlinear gradient term, with a critical power. We construct a solution which blows up in finite time. We also give a sharp description of its blow-up profile. The proof relies on…
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We consider the following exponential reaction-diffusion equation involving a nonlinear gradient term: $$\partial_t U = \Delta U + \alpha|\nabla U|^2 + e^U,\quad (x, t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times[0,T), \quad \alpha > -1.$$ We construct for this…
We deal with existence and non-existence of non-negative entire solutions that blow-up at infinity for a quasilinear problem depending on a non-negative real parameter. Our main objectives in this paper are to provide far more general…
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In this paper we consider the nonlinear dispersive wave equation on the real line, $u_t-u_{txx}+[f(u)]_x-[f(u)]_{xxx}+\bigl[g(u)+\frac{f''(u)}{2}u_x^2\bigr]_x=0$, that for appropriate choices of the functions $f$ and $g$ includes well known…
We consider positive radial decreasing blow-up solutions of the semilinear heat equation \begin{equation*} u_t-\Delta u=f(u):=e^{u}L(e^{u}),\quad x\in \Omega,\ t>0, \end{equation*} where $\Omega=\mathbb{R}^n$ or $\Omega=B_R$ and $L$ is a…
Liouville theorems for scaling invariant nonlinear parabolic problems in the whole space and/or the halfspace (saying that the problem does not posses positive bounded solutions defined for all times $t\in(-\infty,\infty)$) guarantee…
This paper deals with the Cauchy problem for the Hardy-H\'{e}non equation (and its fractional analogue). Local well-posedness for initial data in the class of continuous functions with slow decay at infinity is investigated. Small data (in…
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We prove the first classification of blow-up rates of the critical norm for solutions of the energy supercritical nonlinear heat equation, without any assumptions such as radial symmetry or sign conditions. Moreover, the blow-up rates we…
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