Abstract
The Cauchy problem in for a non-local in time p-Laplacian equations is considered. The nonexistence of nontrivial global weak solutions by using the test function method is obtained.
1. Introduction
In this paper, we consider the following problem:
where , , , and . We are interested in the nonexistence of nontrivial global weak solutions.
The study of nonexistence of global solutions for nonlinear parabolic equations was started by Fujita [1]; he studied the Cauchy problem
and found that
For the limiting case , it is shown by Hayakawa [2] for and by Kobayashi, Sirao and Tanaka [3] for that (2) has no global solution satisfying for . Weissler in [4] proved that if (2) has no global solution satisfying for and some whenever . Therefore, the value
is the limiting exponent of (2); it is called Fujita’s exponent.
Since Fujita’s paper, a sizeable number of extensions in many directions have been published. Recently, Cazenave, Dickstein and Weissler [5] extended the results of Fujita to the non-local in time heat equation
where and . In this case, the value of the critical Fujita exponent is
For the p-Laplacian equation
Zhao [6] and Mitidieri and Pohozaev [7] obtained the critical exponent
In fact, Zhao [6] proved that if , then the Cauchy problem (6) has no nontrivial global solution, however if and is small enough, then (6) admits a global solution. Mitidieri and Pohozaev [7] completed the study by proving the nonexistence of nontrivial global solution in the case and for all . Andreucci and Tedeev [8,9] obtained similar results by considering doubly singular parabolic equations.
The test function method was used to prove the nonexistence of global solutions. This method was introduced by Baras and Kersner in [10] and developed by Zhang in [11] and Pohozaev and Mitidieri in [7], it was also used by Kirane et al. in [12].
Here, we are concerned with the non-existence of nontrivial global solutions of (1); inspired by [7], we choose a suitable test function in the weak formulation of the problem. Our main result is
Theorem 1.
Remark 1.
Remark 2.
The same result can be obtained for the problem
where , and is a Carathéodory function, where one assumes the existence of and such that
for all . For the study of the non-existence of global solution, the following condition is needed
which is a general case of (9).
2. Preliminaries
Definition 1.
A function , , is said to be absolutely continuous if and only if there exists such that
denotes the space of these functions. Moreover,
Definition 2.
Let , . The Riemann–Liouville left-and right-sided fractional integrals are defined by
and
where Γ is the Euler gamma function.
Definition 3.
Let , . The Riemann–Liouville left-and right-sided fractional derivatives are defined by
and
Proposition 1
([13] ((2.64), p. 46))). Let and . The fractional integration by parts formula
is satisfied for every , such that , , where
and
Remark 3.
A simple sufficient condition for functions f and g to satisfy (15) is that such that exist at every point and are continuous.
Proposition 2
([13] (Chapter 1)). For , , we have the following identities
and
where .
Given , let us define the function by
The following properties concerning the functions will be used later on.
Lemma 1
([13] ((2.45), p. 40)). Let , . For all , we have
and
Any constant will be denoted by C.
3. Global Nonexistence
In this section, the proof of Theorem 1 will be presented.
We set
where , for .
Definition 4
(Weak solution).
Let , and A function
is said to be a weak solution of (1) if and the following formulation
holds for all such that supp is compact, where is defined in (11) and . We denote the lifespan for the weak solution by
Moreover, if can be arbitrary chosen, i.e., , then u is called a global weak solution of (1).
Proof Theorem 1.
Let be a global weak solution of (1), then
for all and all such that supp is compact, where . Let
where and be
Then, using the integration-by-parts formula, we get
From (15) and Lemma 1, we conclude that
Moreover, using (16), and , it follows
Next, by introducing in and applying the following Young’s inequality
we get
In order to obtain a similar estimation on , let be an auxiliary constant such that and let
By taking as a test function where is given in (22), and using the fact that u is a weak solution, we obtain
Using the integration-by-parts formula, we get
Then, as
it comes
Whereupon,
Similarly,
and
By ,, and , it follows from (25) that
then
where Young’s inequality
has been used. Consequently, as , we conclude that
Young’s inequality and the last inequality, allow to get
Applying Fatou’s and Lebesgue’s theorems, as , we get
Now, we use the following Young’s inequality
with , the fact that , and the conditions that , to get estimations of , and ; we have
and
Therefore, we conclude that
Using the estimates of and into (23), we obtain
At this stage, we choose , . Taking small enough and passing to , we get from (27) that
If all exponents of T are negative, by taking and using the dominated convergence theorem, we conclude that . In order to ensure the negativity of the exponents of T, it is sufficient to require
which is equivalent to
To take into consideration and , we first look at and and try to compare them in terms of , i.e, to compare between and ; this requires to study two cases: and .
- (a)
- If: In this case we have . As is non-increasing and is non-decreasing as a function of , (29) can be read as
- (b)
- If: Technical calculations lead us to to distinguish 3 cases.
Finally, to get similar results in the critical case
we choose where is such that T and R do not go simultaneously to infinity. Moreover, due to the calculation made above, a positive constant D independent of T exists such that
leading to
where . Repeating a similar calculation as in the subcritical case, , and using Hölder’s inequality instead of Young’s one in and , we get
and
Whereupon
Taking into account that and , we get
Taking the limit when , and using (31), we obtain
Finally, letting , it comes that . The proof of Theorem 1 is complete. □
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, M.K. and A.Z.F.; methodology, M.K. and A.Z.F.; validation, M.K., A.Z.F. and S.K.; formal analysis, M.K., A.Z.F. and S.K.; investigation, M.K., A.Z.F. and S.K.; writing—original draft preparation, M.K., A.Z.F. and S.K.; writing, M.K., A.Z.F. and S.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research received no external funding.
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Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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