A necessary and sufficient condition for the global existence of solutions to nonlinear reaction‐diffusion equations on the half‐spaces in ℝN.

In this paper, we study the existence and nonexistence of the global solutions to nonlinear reaction‐diffusion equations ut(x,t)=Δu(x,t)+ψ(t)f(u(x,t)),(x,t)∈Ω×(0,∞),u(·,0)=u0(x),x∈Ω,u(x,t)=0,(x,t)∈∂Ω×(0,∞),$$ \left\{\begin{array}{ll}{u}_t\left(x,t\right)=\Delta u\left(x,t\right)+\psi (t)f\left(u\left(x,t\right)\right),& \left(x,t\right)\in \Omega \times \left(0,\infty \right),\\ {}u\left(\cdotp, 0\right)={u}_0(x),& x\in \Omega, \\ {}u\left(x,t\right)=0,& \left(x,t\right)\in \mathrm{\partial \Omega}\times \left(0,\infty \right),\end{array}\right. $$where Ω$$ \Omega $$ is the half‐space ℝKN$$ {\mathrm{\mathbb{R}}}_K^N $$, ψ$$ \psi $$ is a nonnegative continuous function, and f$$ f $$ is a locally Lipschitz function with some additional properties. The purpose of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of global solutions as follows: There is no global solution for any nonnegative and nontrivial initial data u0∈C0(Ω)$$ {u}_0\in {C}_0\left(\Omega \right) $$ if and only if ∫1∞ψ(t)tN+K2fϵt−N+K2dt=∞$$ {\int}_1^{\infty}\psi (t){t}^{\frac{N+K}{2}}f\left(\epsilon \kern0.1em {t}^{-\frac{N+K}{2}}\right) dt=\infty $$ for every ϵ>0$$ \epsilon >0 $$. In fact, we introduce a very special curve in ℝKN$$ {\mathrm{\mathbb{R}}}_K^N $$x^(t):=t,⋯,t⏟K‐times,xK+1,⋯,xN,t>0,$$ \hat{x}(t):= \left(\underset{K\hbox{-} \mathrm{times}}{\underbrace{\sqrt{t},\cdots, \sqrt{t}}},{x}_{K+1},\cdots, {x}_N\right),t>0, $$to obtain the lower bound of decay of the heat semigroup, which is essential to prove the main result. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]