# A New Condition for the Concavity Method of Blow-up Solutions to p-Laplacian Parabolic Equations

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a new condition for the concavity method to analyze blow-up solutions in p-Laplacian parabolic equations, improving upon previous conditions and extending the understanding of solution behavior.

## Contribution

The work proposes a novel condition (C_p) that enhances existing criteria for blow-up solutions in p-Laplacian equations using the concavity method.

## Key findings

- The new condition (C_p) broadens the class of nonlinearities for which blow-up can be established.
- It improves upon all previously known conditions for blow-up in similar equations.
- The method successfully demonstrates finite-time blow-up under the new condition.

## Abstract

In this paper, we consider an initial-boundary value problem of the p-Laplacian parabolic equations \begin{equation} \begin{cases} u_{t}\left(x,t\right)=\mbox{div}(|\nabla u\left(x,t\right)|^{p-2}\nabla u(x,t))+f(u(x,t)), & \left(x,t\right)\in \Omega\times\left(0,+\infty\right), \newline u\left(x,t\right)=0, & \left(x,t\right)\in\partial \Omega\times\left[0,+\infty\right), \newline u\left(x,0\right)=u_{0}\geq0, & x\in\overline{\Omega}, \end{cases} \end{equation} where $p\geq2$ and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ $(N\geq1)$ with smooth boundary $\partial\Omega$. The main contribution of this work is to introduce a new condition \[ \mbox{$(C_{p})$$\hspace{1cm} \alpha \int_{0}^{u}f(s)ds \leq uf(u)+\beta u^{p}+\gamma,\,\,u>0$} \] for some $\alpha, \beta, \gamma>0$ with $0<\beta\leq\frac{\left(\alpha-p\right)\lambda_{1, p}}{p}$, where $\lambda_{1, p}$ is the first eigenvalue of p-Laplacian $\Delta_{p}$, and we use the concavity method to obtain the blow-up solutions to the above equations. In fact, it will be seen that the condition $(C_{p})$ improves the conditions ever known so far.