Self-similar blow-up profiles for a reaction-diffusion equation with strong weighted reaction

2020 
We study the self-similar blow-up profiles associated to the following second order reaction-diffusion equation with strong weighted reaction and unbounded weight: $$ \partial_tu=\partial_{xx}(u^m) + |x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for $x\in\real$, $t\geq0$, where $m>1$, $0 2(1-p)/(m-1)$. As a first outcome, we show that finite time blow-up solutions in self-similar form exist for $m+p>2$ and $\sigma$ in the considered range, a fact that is completely new: in the already studied reaction-diffusion equation without weights there is no finite time blow-up when $p 2$ is fulfilled, all the self-similar blow-up profiles are compactly supported and there exist \emph{two different interface behaviors} for solutions of the equation, corresponding to two different interface equations. We classify the self-similar blow-up profiles having both types of interfaces and show that in some cases \emph{global blow-up} occurs, and in some other cases finite time blow-up occurs \emph{only at space infinity}. We also show that there is no self-similar solution if $m+p 2$ is postponed to a different work due to significant technical differences.
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