Threshold Results for the Existence of Global and Blow-Up Solutions to a Time Fractional Diffusion System with a Nonlinear Memory Term in a Bounded Domain

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a time fractional diffusion system with a nonlinear memory term in a bounded domain. We mainly prove some blow-up and global existence results for this problem. Moreover, we also give the decay estimates of the global solutions. Our proof relies on the eigenfunction method combined with the asymptotic behavior of the solution of a fractional differential inequality system, the estimates of the solution operators and the asymptotic behavior of the Mittag–Leffler function. In particular, we give the critical exponents of this problem in different cases. Our results show that, in some cases, whether one of the initial values is identically equal to zero has a great influence on blow-up and global existence of the solutions for this problem, which is a remarkable property of time fractional diffusion systems because the classical diffusion systems can not admit this property.