Well-posedness of semilinear heat equations in L1

Abstract

The problem of obtaining necessary and sufficient conditions for local existence of non-negative solutions in Lebesgue spaces for semilinear heat equations having monotonically increasing source term f has only recently been resolved (Laister et al. (2016)). There, for the more difficult case of initial data in L1, a necessary and sufficient integral condition on f emerged. Here, subject to this integral condition, we consider other fundamental properties of solutions with L1 initial data of indefinite sign, namely: uniqueness, regularity, continuous dependence and comparison. We also establish sufficient conditions for the global-in-time continuation of solutions for small initial data in L1.