Blowup solutions for a reaction-diffusion system with exponential nonlinearities

TL;DR

This paper constructs and analyzes stable blowup solutions for a reaction-diffusion system with exponential nonlinearities, providing a detailed description of singularity formation without relying on classical maximum principles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to establish stable blowup solutions for a reaction-diffusion system with exponential nonlinearities, avoiding traditional energy estimates.

Findings

Existence of stable blowup solutions

Complete description of singularity formation

Method relies on finite-dimensional reduction and topological arguments

Abstract

We consider the following parabolic system whose nonlinearity has no gradient structure: $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u = \Delta u + e^{pv}, \quad & \partial_t v = \mu \Delta v + e^{qu}, u(\cdot, 0) = u_0, \quad & v(\cdot, 0) = v_0, \end{array}\right. \quad p, q, \mu > 0, $$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$. We show the existence of a stable blowup solution and obtain a complete description of its singularity formation. The construction relies on the reduction of the problem to a finite dimensional one and a topological argument based on the index theory to conclude. In particular, our analysis uses neither the maximum principle nor the classical methods based on energy-type estimates which are not supported in this system. The stability is a consequence of the existence proof through a geometrical interpretation of the quantities of blowup parameters whose dimension is equal to the dimension of the finite dimensional problem.