Hair-triggered instability of radial steady states, spread and extinction in semilinear heat equations |
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Authors: | Junping Shi Xuefeng Wang |
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Institution: | a Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795, USA b Department of Mathematics, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, PR China c Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA |
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Abstract: | We first study the initial value problem for a general semilinear heat equation. We prove that every bounded nonconstant radial steady state is unstable if the spatial dimension is low (n?10) or if the steady state is flat enough at infinity: the solution of the heat equation either becomes unbounded as t approaches the lifespan, or eventually stays above or below another bounded radial steady state, depending on if the initial value is above or below the first steady state; moreover, the second steady state must be a constant if n?10.Using this instability result, we then prove that every nonconstant radial steady state of the generalized Fisher equation is a hair-trigger for two kinds of dynamical behavior: extinction and spreading. We also prove more criteria on initial values for these types of behavior. Similar results for a reaction-diffusion system modeling an isothermal autocatalytic chemical reaction are also obtained. |
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Keywords: | 35K45 35K57 35K15 35B35 92E20 |
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