Existence of a separating norm for the semilinear heat equation

Abstract

We consider the initial value problem of the semilinear heat equation in the Fujita supercritical range for which global-in-time solutions may exist. The main result shows the existence of a separating norm $\Vert \cdot {\Vert }_X$ in the sense that, for nonnegative initial data $u_0\in L^{\infty }({\mathbf{R}}^n)$, the smallness of $\Vert u_0{\Vert }_X$ implies global-in-time existence, whereas the largeness of $\Vert u_0{\Vert }_X$ implies finite-time blow-up. The separating norm is unique up to equivalence on nonnegative data.

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