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March  2018, 17(2): 449-475. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018025

## On the effect of higher order derivatives of initial data on the blow-up set for a semilinear heat equation

 Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Hamamatsu 432-8561, Japan

Received  November 2016 Revised  May 2017 Published  March 2018

Fund Project: The first author is partially supported by by the Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (B)(No. 15K17573) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

This paper concerns the blow-up problem for a semilinear heat equation
 $$$\label{eq:P}\tag{P}≤\left\{\begin{array}{ll}\partial_t u=Δ u+u^p, &x∈ Ω, \, \, \, t>0, \\ u(x, t)=0, &x∈\partialΩ, \, \, \, t>0, \\ u(x, 0)=u_0(x)≥ 0, &x∈ Ω, \end{array}\right.$$$
where
 $\partial_t=\partial/\partial t$
,
 $p>1$
,
 $N≥ 1$
,
 $Ω\subset {\bf R}^N$
,
 $u_0$
is a bounded continuous function in
 $\overline{Ω}$
. For the case
 $u_0(x)=λ\varphi(x)$
for some function
 $\varphi$
and a sufficiently large
 $λ>0$
, it is known that the solution blows up only near the maximum points of
 $\varphi$
under suitable assumptions. Furthermore, if
 $\varphi$
has several maximum points, then the blow-up set for (P) is characterized by
 $Δ\varphi$
at its maximum points. However, for initial data
 $u_0(x)=λ\varphi(x)$
, it seems difficult to obtain further information on the blow-up set such that effect of higher order derivatives of initial data. In this paper, we consider another type large initial data
 $u_0(x)=λ+\varphi(x)$
and study the relationship between the blow-up set for (P) and higher order derivatives of initial data.
Citation: Yohei Fujishima. On the effect of higher order derivatives of initial data on the blow-up set for a semilinear heat equation. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (2) : 449-475. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018025
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