Remarks on global solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for quasilinear degenerate parabolic equations with a nonlinear source term

Abstract

We give an existence theorem of global solution to the initial-boundary value problem for \(u_{t}-\operatorname{div}\{\sigma(|\nabla u|^2)\nabla u\}=f(u)\) under some smallness conditions on the initial data, where \(\sigma (v^2)\) is a positive function of \(v^2\ne 0\) admitting the degeneracy property \(\sigma(0)=0\). We are interested in the case where \(\sigma(v^2)\) has no exponent \(m \geq 0\) such that \(\sigma(v^2) \geq k_0|v|^m , k_0 \gt 0\). A typical example is \(\sigma(v^2)=\operatorname{log}(1+v^2)\). \(f(u)\) is a function like \(f=|u|^{\alpha} u\). A decay estimate for \(\|\nabla u(t)\|_{\infty}\) is also given.