Semilinear Heat Inequalities with a Hardy-Type Potential in an Exterior Geodesic Domain on $\mathbb{S}^N$

TL;DR

This paper investigates the existence and nonexistence of solutions to a semilinear heat inequality on the sphere with a Hardy-type potential and weighted nonlinearity, identifying a critical exponent that determines solution behavior.

Contribution

It introduces a new critical exponent for the problem and develops Hardy barrier techniques to analyze solution existence in the presence of singular potentials.

Findings

No solutions for p > p_crit with nonnegative sources.

Existence of classical solutions for 1 < p < p_crit with positive sources.

Nonexistence at p = p_crit under additional assumptions.

Abstract

We study an inhomogeneous semilinear heat inequality on the unit sphere \(\mathbb S^N\), \(N\ge3\), in an exterior geodesic domain associated with a fixed pole. The equation involves the singular Hardy-type potential \(\lambda/\sin^2 r\), where \(r=d(o,x)\), and the weighted nonlinearity \((\sin r)^\alpha |u|^p\). For \(\alpha>-2\) and \(0<\lambda\le \lambda^*=((N-2)/2)^2\), we prove the existence of a critical exponent \(p_{\mathrm{crit}}=p_{\mathrm{crit}}(\alpha,N,\lambda)\) governing the existence and nonexistence of solutions. More precisely, we prove that no weak solution exists for any nontrivial nonnegative source in the range \(p>p_{\mathrm{crit}}\), whereas classical solutions exist for some positive continuous sources in the range \(1<p<p_{\mathrm{crit}}\). Under suitable additional assumptions, we also prove nonexistence at the critical exponent \(p=p_{\mathrm{crit}}\). If \(\alpha\le -2\), we show that nonexistence holds for all \(p>1\). The analysis is based on the construction of radial Hardy barriers adapted to the antipodal singularity and on sharp integral estimates involving power and logarithmic cutoffs near \(r=\pi\).