# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2013, 33(5): 2033-2063. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2033

## Initial trace of positive solutions of a class of degenerate heat equation with absorption

 1 Department of Mathematics, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel 2 Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Physique Théorique, CNRS UMR 6083, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France

Received  April 2012 Revised  September 2012 Published  December 2012

We study the initial value problem with unbounded nonnegative functions or measures for the equation $∂_t u-Δ_p u+f(u)=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^ × (0,\infty)$ where $p>1$, $Δ_p u = div(|∇ u|^{p-2} ∇ u )$ and $f$ is a continuous, nondecreasing nonnegative function such that $f(0)=0$. In the case $p>\frac{2N}{N+1}$, we provide a sufficient condition on $f$ for existence and uniqueness of the solutions satisfying the initial data $kΔ_0$ and we study their limit when $k → ∞$ according $f^{-1}$ and $F^{-1/p}$ are integrable or not at infinity, where $F(s)= ∫_0^s f(σ)dσ$. We also give new results dealing with uniqueness and non uniqueness for the initial value problem with unbounded initial data. If $p>2$, we prove that, for a large class of nonlinearities $f$, any positive solution admits an initial trace in the class of positive Borel measures. As a model case we consider the case $f(u)=u^α ln^β (u+1)$, where $α>0$ and $β ≥ 0$.
Citation: Tai Nguyen Phuoc, Laurent Véron. Initial trace of positive solutions of a class of degenerate heat equation with absorption. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2013, 33 (5) : 2033-2063. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.2033
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