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We consider a non-homogeneous parabolic equation with degenerate coefficients of the form \(u_t-L_{\omega } u=u^p\), where \(L_{\omega }=\omega ^{-1}\mathrm div(\omega \nabla )\). This paper establishes the existence/non-existence of global-in-time mild solutions based on a critical exponent, known as the Fujita exponent. Similar topics for a semilinear heat equation with degenerate coefficients are treated in Fujishima (Calc Var Partial Differ Equ 58:25, 2019). They considered an equation \(u_t-\textrm{div}(\omega \nabla u) =u^p\), which is not self-adjoint, with two types of homogeneous weights: \(\omega (x) = |x_1|^a\) and \(\omega (x) = |x|^b\) where \(a,b>0\). In this paper we consider the case of a self-adjoint operator, and extend to more general weights that meet certain restrictions such as being in the Muckenhoupt class \(A_2\), non-decreasing, and where the limits \(\alpha :=\lim _{|x'|\rightarrow \infty }(\log \omega (x))/(\log |x'|)\) and \(\beta :=\lim _{|x'|\rightarrow 0}(\log \omega (x))/(\log |x'|)\) exist, where \(x' = (x_1, \dots , x_n)\) and \(1\le n\le N\). The main result establishes that the Fujita exponent is given by \(p_F = 1+2/(N+\alpha )\). This means that the asymptotic behavior of the weight at infinity affects global existence of solutions and the one at the origin does not.
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The authors are grateful to the referees for their helpful comments on the paper. Y.S. is supported by NSF DMS grant 2154219, “ Regularity vs singularity formation in elliptic and parabolic equations”. T.K. is supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP 20K03689 and 22KK0035.
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Kawakami, T., Sire, Y. & Wang, J.N. Fujita exponent for the global-in-time solutions to a semilinear heat equation with non-homogeneous weights. J. Evol. Equ. 24, 44 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00028-024-00969-4
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