Decay and local eventual positivity for biharmonic parabolic equations
Decay and local eventual positivity for biharmonic parabolic equations
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双调和抛物线方程的衰变和局部最终正性
DOI:
10.3934/dcds.2008.21.1129
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
H. Grunau
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作者:
A. Ferrero;F. Gazzola;H. Grunau
We study existence and positivity properties for solutions of
Cauchy problems for both linear and semilinear parabolic equations
with the biharmonic operator as elliptic principal part. The
self-similar kernel of the parabolic operator $\partial_t+\Delta^2$
is a sign changing function and the solution of the evolution
problem with a positive initial datum may display almost
instantaneous change of sign. We determine conditions on the initial
datum for which the corresponding solution exhibits some kind of
positivity behaviour. We prove eventual local positivity properties
both in the linear and semilinear case. At the same time, we show
that negativity of the solution may occur also for arbitrarily large
given time, provided the initial datum is suitably constructed.