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2008/09/03

16:00-17:30   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Fred Weissler (University of Paris 13)
Finite time blowup of oscillating solutions to the nonlinear heat equation
[ Abstract ]
(This is joint work with T. Cazenave and F. Dickstein.)

We study finite time blowup properties of solutions of the nonlinear heat equation, both on $R^N$, and on a ball in $R^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We show, among other results, that the set of initial values producing global solutions is not always star-shaped around the 0 solution. This contrasts with the case where only non-negative solutions are considered.