Large-time behavior and grow-up rates of inhomogeneous semilinear heat equations

Abstract

We consider the semilinear heat equation in the unit ball with the exponential nonlinearity and an inhomogeneous term $f$. When $f=0$, it is known that the bifurcation structure of the stationary problem undergoes a qualitative change at the critical dimension $N=10$. This change affects the large-time behavior of solutions to the heat equation, and in particular, the grow-up phenomenon occurs for $N\ge 10$. In this paper, we show that once $f$ exceeds a threshold, the bifurcation structure changes to a type that does not appear in the case $f=0$. The change in the bifurcation structure leads to the disappearance of the grow-up phenomenon beyond the threshold. Moreover, we provide a quantitative characterization of this transition by determining the sharp grow-up rates for $N\ge 11$. In particular, we identify a new dimension-specific phenomenon in the threshold case: a log-log type correction term emerges in the grow-up rate only for $N=11$.

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