Boundedness of Solutions of Nonautonomous Degenerate Logistic Equations

Abstract

AbstractIn this work we analyze the boundedness properties of the solutions of a nonautonomous parabolic degenerate logistic equation in a bounded domain. The equation is degenerate in the sense that the logistic nonlinearity vanishes in a moving region, K(t), inside the domain. The boundedness character of the solutions depends not only on, roughly speaking, the first eigenvalue of the Laplace operator in K(t) but also on the way this moving set evolves inside the domain and in particular on the speed at which it moves.