QUALITATIVE PROPERTIES OF NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS WITH DOMINATING GRADIENT TERMS

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Rodríguez Paredes, Andrei EnriqueAbstract
My thesis consists of contributions to the study of viscosity solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations. We address the phenomena of continuous solvability, loss of boundary conditions, and the large-time behavior for initial and boundary value problems associated to different generalizations of the so-called viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation.
More specifically, in a first part we study whether the solutions of a fully nonlinear, uniformly par...
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My thesis consists of contributions to the study of viscosity solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations. We address the phenomena of continuous solvability, loss of boundary conditions, and the large-time behavior for initial and boundary value problems associated to different generalizations of the so-called viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation.
More specifically, in a first part we study whether the solutions of a fully nonlinear, uniformly parabolic equation with superquadratic growth in the gradient satisfy initial and homogeneous boundary conditions in the classical sense, a problem we refer to as the classical Dirichlet problem. Our main results are the nonexistence of global-in-time solutions of this problem, depending on a specific largeness condition on the initial data, and the existence of local-in-time solutions for initial data with first order derivative continuous up to the boundary. Our result implies the occurrence of loss of boundary conditions in finite time. Specifically, a solution satisfying homogeneous boundary conditions in a generalized sense eventually becomes strictly positive at some point of the boundary.
In a second part we obtain similar results for an equation with fractional diffusion for a specific range of values of the fractional-order operator and the power of the gradient term, assuming now Hölder regularity for the initial data.
Finally, we study the large-time behavior of unbounded solutions of the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a nonhomogeneous source term, set over the whole space. In the part we obtain
well-posedness for nonnegative, coercive, locally-Lipschitz source terms and nonnegative, continuous initial data, and local uniform convergence to solutions of the so-called ergodic problem under the additional assumption of polynomial growth for the source term.
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2018Academic guide
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