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An application of braid group theory to the finite time dead-core rate

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We consider the dead-core problem for the semilinear heat equation with strong absorption and with positive boundary values in a ball. We investigate the dead-core rate, i.e. the rate at which the solution reaches its first zero. We first show, as in the one-dimensional case, that the dead-core rate is always faster than the self-similar rate. By using some special solutions and the braid group theory, we then derive the exact dead-core rates for a large class of initial data.

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Guo, JS., Matano, H. & Wu, CC. An application of braid group theory to the finite time dead-core rate. J. Evol. Equ. 10, 835–855 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00028-010-0072-0

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