Global existence and blow-up of weak solutions for a class of fractional p-Laplacian evolution equations

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we study the fractional p-Laplacian evolution equation with arbitrary initial energy, $$\begin{array}{} \displaystyle u_t(x,t) + (-{\it\Delta})_p^s u(x,t) = f(u(x,t)), \quad x\in {\it\Omega}, \,t \gt 0, \end{array} $$ where $\begin{array}{} (-{\it\Delta})_p^s \end{array} $ is the fractional p-Laplacian with $\begin{array}{} p \gt \max\{\frac{2N}{N+2s},1\} \end{array} $ and s ∈ (0, 1). Specifically, by the modified potential well method, we obtain the global existence, uniqueness, and blow-up in finite time of the weak solution for the low, critical and high initial energy cases respectively.