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Life span of solutions for a semilinear parabolic problem with small diffusion. (English) Zbl 0993.35011
This paper concerns the following initial boundary value problem for a semilinear parabolic equation $u_t = \varepsilon \Delta u + |u|^{p-1} u\quad\text{in } \Omega \times (0,\infty),$ $u(x,t) =0 \quad \text{on } \partial \Omega \times (0,\infty), \qquad u(x,0)=\varphi(x)\quad \text{in } \Omega,$ where $$p>1$$, $$\varepsilon >0$$, $$\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$$ is a bounded domain and $$\varphi$$ is a continuous function on $$\overline{\Omega}$$ satisfying $-\min_{x \in \overline{\Omega}}\varphi(x) < \max_{x \in \overline{\Omega}}\varphi(x),$ hence, not necessarily with constant sign. Denoted by $$T(\varepsilon)$$ the blow-up time of the solution, the authors prove that $$T(\varepsilon) \rightarrow \frac{1}{p-1} |\varphi|_\infty^{1-p}$$ as $$\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$$. Such a result improves an analogous one obtained by A. Friedman and A. A. Lacey [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 18, 711-721 (1987; Zbl 0643.35013)], when the initial data (and hence also the solution) are positive. Moreover, the higher order term of $$T(\varepsilon)$$ which reflects the pointedness of the peak of $$|\varphi|$$ is determined, when the maximum of $$|\varphi(x)|$$ is attained at only one point.

##### MSC:
 35B25 Singular perturbations in context of PDEs 35B40 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs 35K60 Nonlinear initial, boundary and initial-boundary value problems for linear parabolic equations
##### Keywords:
semilinear parabolic equations; blow-up time
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