We show that for any semilinear partial differential equation of order m, the infinitesimals of the independent variables depend only on the independent variables and, if m>1 and the equation is also linear in its derivatives of order m-1 of the dependent variable, then the infinitesimal of the dependent variable is at most linear on the dependent variable. Many examples of important partial differential equations in Analysis, Geometry and Mathematical - Physics are given in order to enlighten the main result.
A semilinear ordinary differential equation is derived from a semilinear Schrödinger equation in the homogeneous and isotropic spacetime by the Ehrenfest theorem. The Cauchy problem for the equation is considered. Exact solutions and nonexistence of global weak solutions of the equation are also considered in the de Sitter spacetime. The effects of spatial expansion and contraction are studied.
We show that the knowledge of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map on an arbitrary open portion of the boundary of a domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 2$, for a class of semilinear elliptic equations, determines the nonlinearity uniquely.
This paper will discuss a class of semilinear partial differential equations induced by studying the limiting behaviour of Hermitian Yang-Mills metrics. We will study the radial symmetry of the $C^{2}$ global solution of this equation in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ and the existence of $C^{2,α}$ solution of the Dirichlet boundary value problem in any bounded domain.
We deal with a class of semilinear nonlocal differential equations in Hilbert spaces which is a general model for some anomalous diffusion equations. By using the theory of integral equations with completely positive kernel together with local estimates, some existence, regularity and stability results are established. An application to nonlocal partial differential equations is shown to demonstrate our abstract results.
We show that the linear span of the set of scalar products of gradients of harmonic functions on a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ which vanish on a closed proper subset of the boundary is dense in $L^1(Ω)$. We apply this density result to solve some partial data inverse boundary problems for a class of semilinear elliptic PDE with quadratic gradient terms.
We present an existence result for a partial differential inclusion with linear parabolic principal part and relaxed one-sided Lipschitz multivalued nonlinearity in the framework of Gelfand triples. Our study uses discretizations of the differential inclusion by a Galerkin scheme, which is compatible with a conforming finite element method, and we analyze convergence properties of the discrete solution sets.
On the Optimal Control Problem of Stochastic Semilinear Partial Differential Equations with Non-Globally Lipschitz Coefficients
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv（基辅塔拉斯舍甫琴科国立大学）；Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University（切尔诺夫策尤里·费多科维奇国立大学）；Virginia Commonwealth University（弗吉尼亚联邦大学）
We study mild solutions of a class of stochastic partial differential equations, involving operators with polynomially bounded coefficients. We consider semilinear equations under suitable hyperbolicity hypotheses on the linear part. We provide conditions on the initial data and on the stochastic terms, namely, on the associated spectral measure, so that mild solutions exist and are unique in suitably chosen functional classes. More precisely, function-valued solutions are obtained, as well as a regularity result.
We consider semilinear elliptic second-order partial differential inequalities of the form Lu +|u|q-1u < and = Lv +|v|q-1v (*) in the whole space Rn, where n > and = 2, q > 0 and L is a linear elliptic second-order partial differential operator in divergence form. We assume that the coefficients of the operator L are defined, measurable and locally bounded in Rn, and that the quadratic form associated with the operator L is symmetric and non-negative definite. We obtain a Liouville comparison principle in terms of a capacity associated with the operator L for solutions of (*), which are define…
This paper addresses saddle-shaped solutions to the semilinear equation $L_K u = f(u)$ in $\mathbb{R}^{2m}$, where $L_K$ is a linear elliptic integro-differential operator with a radially symmetric kernel $K$, and $f$ is of Allen-Cahn type. Saddle-shaped solutions are doubly radial, odd with respect to the Simons cone $\{(x', x'') \in \mathbb{R}^m \times \mathbb{R}^m \, : \, |x'| = |x''|\}$, and vanish only in this set. We establish the uniqueness and the asymptotic behavior of the saddle-shaped solution. For this, we prove a Liouville type result, the one-dimensional symmetry of positive solu…
In this article, we study the existence of non-trivial weak solutions for the following boundary-value problem \begin{gather*} -\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial x^2} -\left|x\right|^{2k}\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial y^2}=f(x,y,u) \quad\text{ in }Ω, \ u=0 \quad\text{ on }\partialΩ, \end{gather*} where $Ω$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in $\mathbb{R}^2, Ω\cap \{x=0\}\ne \emptyset,$ $k >0,$ $f(x,y,0)=0. $
Here we show a hidden regularity result for nonlinear wave equations with an integral term of convolution type and Dirichlet boundary conditions. Under general assumptions on the nonlinear term and on the integral kernel we are able to state results about global existence of strong and mild solutions without any further smallness on the initial data. Then we define the trace of the normal derivative of the solution showing a regularity result. In such a way we extend to integrodifferential equations with nonlinear term well-known results available in the literature for linear wave equations wi…
We prove the local existence and uniqueness of minimal regularity solutions $u$ of the semilinear generalized Tricomi equation $\partial_t^2 u-t^m Δu =F(u)$ with initial data $(u(0,\cdot), \partial_t u(0,\cdot)) \in \dot{H^γ}(\mathbb R^n) \times \dot{H}^{γ-\frac2{m+2}}(\mathbb R^n)$ under the assumption that $|F(u)|\lesssim |u|^κ$ and $|F'(u)| \lesssim |u|^{κ-1}$ for some $κ>1$. Our results improve previous results of M. Beals [2] and of ourselves [15-17]. We establish Strichartz-type estimates for the linear generalized Tricomi operator $\partial_t^2 -t^m Δ$ from which the semilinear results …
We consider the inverse problem of determining a general nonlinear term appearing in a semilinear hyperbolic equation on a Riemannian manifold with boundary $(M,g)$ of dimension $n=2,3$. We prove results of unique recovery of the nonlinear term $F(t,x,u)$, appearing in the equation $\partial_t^2u-Δ_gu+F(t,x,u)=0$ on $(0,T)\times M$ with $T>0$, from some partial knowledge of the solutions $u$ on the boundary of the time-space cylindrical manifold $(0,T)\times M$ or on the lateral boundary $(0,T)\times\partial M$. We determine the expression $F(t,x,u)$ both on the boundary $x\in\partial M$ and i…
We study various partial data inverse boundary value problems for the semilinear elliptic equation $Δu+ a(x,u)=0$ in a domain in $\mathbb R^n$ by using the higher order linearization technique introduced in [LLS 19, FO19]. We show that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of the above equation determines the Taylor series of $a(x,z)$ at $z=0$ under general assumptions on $a(x,z)$. The determination of the Taylor series can be done in parallel with the detection of an unknown cavity inside the domain or an unknown part of the boundary of the domain. The method relies on the solution of the linearized p…
We are interested in the upper bound of the lifespan of solutions of semilinear wave equations from above. For the sub-critical case in high dimensions, it has been believed that the basic tools of its analysis are Kato's lemma on ordinary differential inequalities and the rescaling argument in the functional method. But there is a small lack of delicate analysis and no published paper about this. Here we give a simple alternative proof by means of improved Kato's lemma without any rescaling argument.
We consider a possibly anisotropic integro-differential semilinear equation, run by a nondecreasing and nontrivial nonlinearity. We prove that if the solution grows at infinity less than the order of the operator, then it must be constant.
We study function-valued solutions of a class of stochastic partial differential equations, involving operators with polynomially bounded coefficients. We consider semilinear equations under suitable parabolicity hypotheses. We provide conditions on the initial data and on the stochastic terms, namely, on the associated spectral measure, so that these mild solutions exist uniquely in suitably chosen functional classes.
The purpose of this paper is to study the weak solutions of the fractional elliptic problem \begin{equation}\label{000} \begin{array}{lll} (-Δ)^αu+εg(u)=k\frac{\partial^αν}{\partial \vec{n}^α}\quad &{\rm in}\quad\ \ \barΩ,\\[3mm] \phantom{(-Δ)^α+εg(u)} u=0\quad &{\rm in}\quad\ \ \barΩ^c, \end{array} \end{equation} where $k>0$, $ε=1$ or $-1$, $(-Δ)^α$ with $α\in(0,1)$ is the fractional Laplacian defined in the principle value sense, $Ω$ is a bounded $C^2$ open set in $R^N$ with $N\ge 2$, $ν$ is a bounded Radon measure supported in $\partialΩ$ and $\frac{\partial^αν}{\partial \vec{n}^α}$ is defi…
We consider the semilinear damped wave equation $\partial_{tt}^2 u(x,t)+γ(x)\partial_t u(x,t)=Δu(x,t)-αu(x,t)-f(x,u(x,t))$. In this article, we obtain the first results concerning the stabilization of this semilinear equation in cases where $γ$ does not satisfy the geometric control condition. When some of the geodesic rays are trapped, the stabilization of the linear semigroup is semi-uniform in the sense that $\|e^{At}A^{-1}\|\leq h(t)$ for some function $h$ with $h(t)\rightarrow 0$ when $t\rightarrow +\infty$. We provide general tools to deal with the semilinear stabilization problem in the…
We construct global-in-time solutions for semilinear parabolic rough partial differential equations. We work on a scale of Banach spaces tailored to the controlled rough path approach and derive suitable a-priori estimates of the solution which do not contain quadratic terms.
In this paper, we generalize Liouville type theorems for some semilinear partial differential inequalities to sub-Riemannian manifolds satisfying a nonnegative generalized curvature-dimension inequality introduced by Baudoin and Garofalo in [5]. In particular, our results apply to all Sasakian manifolds with nonnegative horizontal Webster-Tanaka-Ricci curvature. The key ingredient is to construct a class of "good" cut-off functions. We also provide some upper bounds for lifespan to parabolic and hyperbolic inequalities.
We consider equation $-Δu+f(x,u)=0$ in smooth bounded domain $Ω\in\mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geqslant2$, with $f(x,r)>0$ in $Ω\times\mathbb{R}^1_+$ and $f(x,r)=0$ on $\partialΩ$. We find the condition on the order of degeneracy of $f(x,r)$ near $\partialΩ$, which is a criterion of the existence-nonexistence of a very singular solution with a strong point singularity on $\partialΩ$. Moreover, we prove that the mentioned condition is a sufficient condition for the uniqueness of a large solution and conjecture that this condition is also a necessary condition of the uniqueness.
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a locally finite connected weighted graph, and $Ω$ be an unbounded subset of $V$. Using Rothe's method, we study the existence of solutions for the semilinear heat equation $\partial_tu+|u|^{p-1}\cdot u=Δu~(p\ge1)$ and the parabolic variational inequality \begin{eqnarray*} \int_{Ω^\circ} \partial_tu\cdot(v-u)\,dμ\ge \int_{Ω^\circ}(Δu+f)\cdot(v-u)\,dμ\qquad\mbox{for any }v\in \mathcal{H}, \end{eqnarray*} where $\mathcal{H}=\{u\in W^{1,2}(V):u=0\mbox{ on }V\backslashΩ^\circ\}$.
For 1-D semilinear Tricomi equation $\partial_t^2 u-t\partial_x^2u=|u|^p$ with initial data $(u(0,x), \partial_t u(0,x))$ $=(u_0(x), u_1(x))$, where $t\ge 0$, $x\in\mathbb{R}$, $p>1$, and $u_i\in C_0^\infty(\mathbb{R})$ ($i=0,1$), we shall prove that there exists a critical exponent $p_{\rm crit}=5$ such that the small data weak solution $u$ exists globally when $p>p_{\rm crit}$; on the other hand, the weak solution $u$, in general, blows up in finite time when $1<p<p_{\rm crit}$. We specially point out that for 1-D semilinear wave equation $\partial_t^2 v-\partial_x^2v=|v|^p$, the weak soluti…
This paper deals with the spatial and temporal regularity of the unique Hilbert space valued mild solution to a semilinear stochastic partial differential equation with nonlinear terms that satisfy global Lipschitz conditions. It is shown that the mild solution has the same optimal regularity properties as the stochastic convolution. The proof is elementary and makes use of existing results on the regularity of the solution, in particular, the Hölder continuity with a non-optimal exponent.
We consider dynamics of scalar semilinear parabolic equations on bounded intervals with periodic boundary conditions, and on the entire real line, with a general nonlinearity $g(t,x,u,u_x)$ either not depending on $t$, or periodic in $t$. While the topological and geometric structure of their attractors has been investigated in depth, we focus here on ergodic-theoretical properties. The main result is that the union of supports of all the invariant measures projects one-to-one to $\mathbb{R}^2$. We rely on a novel application of the zero-number techniques with respect to evolution of measures …
We give new criteria for the existence of weak solutions to an equation with a super linear source term \begin{align*}-Δu = u^q ~~\text{in}~Ω,~~u=σ~~\text{on }~\partialΩ\end{align*}where $Ω$ is a either a bounded smooth domain or $\mathbb{R}\_+^{N}$, $q\textgreater{}1$ and $σ\in \mathfrak{M}^+(\partialΩ)$ is a nonnegative Radon measure on $\partialΩ$. One of the criteria we obtain is expressed in terms of some Bessel capacities on $\partialΩ$. We also give a sufficient condition for the existence of weak solutions to equation with source mixed terms. \begin{align*} -Δu = |u|^{q\_1-1}u|\nabla u…
In the present paper initial problems for the semilinear integro-differential diffusion equation and system are considered. The analogue of Duhamel principle for the linear integro-differential diffusion equation is proved. The results on existence of local mild solutions and Fujita-type critical exponents to the semilinear integro-differential diffusion equation and system are presented.
In this paper, we consider a class of fractional integro-differential inclusions in Hilbert spaces. This paper deals with the approximate controllability for a class of fractional integro-differential control systems. First, we establishes a set of sufficient conditions for the approximate controllability for a class of fractional semilinear integro-differential inclusions in Hilbert spaces. We use Bohnenblust-Karlin's fixed point theorem to prove our main results. Further, we extend the result to study the approximate controllability concept with nonlocal conditions. An example is also given …
We study a class of fractional semilinear elliptic equations and formulate the corresponding Calderón problem. We determine the nonlinearity from the exterior partial measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map by using first order linearization and the Runge approximation property.
In this paper we construct families of bounded domains $Ω_\varepsilon$ and solutions $u_\varepsilon$ of \[\begin{cases} -Δu_\varepsilon=1&\text{ in }\ Ω_\varepsilon\\ u_\varepsilon=0&\text{ on }\ \partialΩ_\varepsilon \end{cases}\] such that, for any integer $k\ge2$, $u_\varepsilon$ admits at least $k$ maxima points for small enough $\varepsilon$. The domain $Ω_\varepsilon$ is "not far" to be convex in the sense that it is starshaped, the curvature of $\partialΩ_\varepsilon$ vanishes at exactly $two$ points and the minimum of the curvature of $\partialΩ_\varepsilon$ goes to $0$ as $\varepsilon…
In this work we study permanence of hyperbolicity for autonomous differential equations under nonautonomous random/stochastic perturbations. For the linear case, we study robustness and existence of exponential dichotomies for nonautonomous random dynamical systems. Next, we establish a result on the persistence of hyperbolic equilibria for nonlinear differential equations. We show that for each nonautonomous random perturbation of an autonomous semilinear problem with a hyperbolic equilibrium there exists a bounded \textit{random hyperbolic solution} for the associated nonlinear nonautonomous…
Given a smooth domain $Ω\subset\RR^N$ such that $0 \in \partialΩ$ and given a nonnegative smooth function $ζ$ on $\partialΩ$, we study the behavior near 0 of positive solutions of $-Δu=u^q$ in $Ω$ such that $u = ζ$ on $\partialΩ\setminus\{0\}$. We prove that if $\frac{N+1}{N-1} < q < \frac{N+2}{N-2}$, then $u(x)\leq C \abs{x}^{-\frac{2}{q-1}}$ and we compute the limit of $\abs{x}^{\frac{2}{q-1}} u(x)$ as $x \to 0$. We also investigate the case $q= \frac{N+1}{N-1}$. The proofs rely on the existence and uniqueness of solutions of related equations on spherical domains.
We prove that under natural assumptions on the data strong solutions in Sobolev spaces of semilinear parabolic equations in divergence form involving measure on the right-hand side may be represented by solutions of some generalized backward stochastic differential equations. As an application we provide stochastic representation of strong solutions of the obstacle problem be means of solutions of some reflected backward stochastic differential equations. To prove the latter result we use a stochastic homographic approximation for solutions of the reflected backward equation. The approximation…
We consider convex potentials $W:\R\to [0,\infty)$ vanishing at $0$ and growing sufficiently fast at $\pm\infty$. Given any open set $Ω\subset\R^n$ with Lipschitz and compact boundary, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution of $Δu= W'(u)$ in $Ω$, such that $u=+\infty$ or $u=-\infty$ on $\partial Ω$. Moreover, if $\partial Ω$ is the union of two disjoint compact subsets $A^+$ and $A^-$, there also exists a unique solution satisfying $u=+\infty$ on $A^+$ and $u=-\infty$ on $A^-$.
We consider a possibly strongly degenerate parabolic semilinear problem which can be applied to a differential model for pricing financial derivatives. We prove the asked regularity for applying the Ito's formula which is used for building the differential model.
We prove that deep neural networks are capable of approximating solutions of semilinear Kolmogorov PDE in the case of gradient-independent, Lipschitz-continuous nonlinearities, while the required number of parameters in the networks grow at most polynomially in both dimension $d \in \mathbb{N}$ and prescribed reciprocal accuracy $\varepsilon$. Previously, this has only been proven in the case of semilinear heat equations.
We study existence and uniqueness of solutions of (E 1) --$Δ$u + $μ$ |x| ^{-2} u + g(u) = $ν$ in $Ω$, u = $λ$ on $\partial$$Ω$, where $Ω$ $\subset$ R N + is a bounded smooth domain such that 0 $\in$ $\partial$$Ω$, $μ$ $\ge$ -- N 2 4 is a constant, g a continuous nondecreasing function satisfying some integral growth condition and $ν$ and $λ$ two Radon measures respectively in $Ω$ and on $\partial$$Ω$. We show that the situation differs considerably according the measure is concentrated at 0 or not. When g is a power we introduce a capacity framework which provides necessary and sufficient cond…
We obtain a new Liouville comparison principle for entire weak solutions $(u,v)$ of semilinear parabolic second-order partial differential inequalities of the form $$ u_t -{\mathcal L}u- |u|^{q-1}u\geq v_t -{\mathcal L}v- |v|^{q-1}v (*) $$ in the half-space ${\mathbb S} = {\mathbb R}^1_+ \times \mathbb R^n$. Here $n\geq 1$, $q>0$ and $$ {\mathcal L}=\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^n\frac{\partial}{{\partial}x_i} [ a_{ij}(t, x) \frac{\partial}{{\partial}x_j}],$$ where $a_{ij}(t,x)$, $i,j=1,...,n$, are functions defined, measurable and locally bounded in $\mathbb S$, and such that $a_{ij}(t,x)=a_{ji}(t,x)$ …
In this short note, we investigate simultaneous recovery inverse problems for semilinear elliptic equations with partial data. The main technique is based on higher order linearization and monotonicity approaches. With these methods at hand, we can determine the diffusion, cavity and coefficients simultaneously by knowing the corresponding localized Dirichlet-Neumann operators.
Let $(u,v)$ be a nonnegative solution to the semilinear parabolic system \[ \mbox{(P)} \qquad \cases{ \partial_t u=D_1Δu+v^p, & $x\in{\bf R}^N,\,\,\,t>0,$\\ \partial_t v=D_2Δv+u^q, & $x\in{\bf R}^N,\,\,\,t>0,$\\ (u(\cdot,0),v(\cdot,0))=(μ,ν), & $x\in{\bf R}^N,$ } \] where $D_1$, $D_2>0$, $0<p\le q$ with $pq>1$ and $(μ,ν)$ is a pair of nonnegative Radon measures or nonnegative measurable functions in ${\bf R}^N$. In this paper we study sufficient conditions on the initial data for the solvability of problem~(P) and clarify optimal singularities of the initial functions for the solvability.
In this paper we will see that the global or local existence of solutions to \begin{eqnarray*} \dfrac{\partial u_{1}}{\partial t} & = & \mathit{k}_{1} (t) Δu_{1} + h_{1}(t) u_{1}^{p_{11}} u_{2}^{p_{12}},\\ \dfrac{\partial u_{2}}{\partial t} & = & \mathit{k}_{2} (t) Δu_{2} + h_{2}(t) u_{2}^{p_{22}} u_{1}^{p_{21}}, \end{eqnarray*} depends on the initial datums and the global or local existence of solutions to \begin{eqnarray*} \dfrac{dy_{1}}{dt} & = & h_{1}(t) y_{1}^{p_{11}}(t) y_{2}^{p_{12}}(t),\\ \dfrac{dy_{2}}{dt} & = & h_{2}(t) y_{2}^{p_{22}}(t) y_{1}^{p_{21}}(t). \end{eqnarray*} We also giv…
Sharp non-uniqueness of weak solutions to the semilinear wave equation
School of Mathematical Sciences & Shanghai Key Laboratory for Contemporary Applied Mathematics, Fudan University（复旦大学数学科学学院与当代应用数学上海市重点实验室）；School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University（复旦大学数学科学学院）
This paper is concerned with longtime dynamics of semilinear Lamé systems $$ \partial^2_t u - μΔu - (λ+ μ) \nabla {\rm div} u + α\partial_t u + f(u) = 0, $$ defined in bounded domains of $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Dirichlet boundary condition. Firstly, we establish the existence of finite dimensional global attractors subjected to critical forcings $f(u)$. Writing $λ+ μ$ as a positive parameter $\varepsilon$, we discuss some physical aspects of the limit case $\varepsilon \to 0$. Then, we show the upper-semicontinuity of attractors with respect to the parameter when $\varepsilon \to 0$. To our best k…
We exhibit a singularly perturbed parabolic problems for which the asymptotic behavior can be described by an one-dimensional ordinary differential equation. We estimate the continuity of attractors in the Hausdorff metric by rate of convergence of resolvent operator.
Let $Ω$ be a $\mathcal C^2$-bounded domain of $\mathbb R^d$, $d=2,3$, and fix $Q=(0,T)\timesΩ$ with $T\in(0,+\infty]$. In the present paper we consider a Dirichlet initial-boundary value problem associated to the semilinear fractional wave equation $\partial_t^αu+\mathcal A u=f_b(u)$ in $Q$ where $1<α<2$, $\partial_t^α$ corresponds to the Caputo fractional derivative of order $α$, $\mathcal A$ is an elliptic operator and the nonlinearity $f_b\in \mathcal C^1( \mathbb R)$ satisfies $f_b(0)=0$ and $|f_b'(u)|\leq C|u|^{b-1}$ for some $b>1$. We first provide a definition of local weak solutions of…
In this paper we prove the nonexistence of nontrivial solution to \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -Δu =f(u) &\text{in }Ω, \\ u=0 &\text{on } \partial Ω, \end{cases} \end{equation*} being $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ ($N\in \mathbb{N}$) a bounded domain and $f$ locally Lispchitz with non-positive primitive.
We study the initial trace problem for positive solutions of semilinear heat equations with strong absorption. We show that in general this initial trace is an outer regular Borel measure. We emphasize in particular the case where $u$ satisfies (E) $\partial_t u-Δu+t^α|u|^{q-1}u=0$, with $q>1$ and $α>-1$ and prove that in the subcritical case $1
We develop a new method for addressing certain weakly null systems of wave equations. This approach does not rely on Lorentz invariance nor on the use of null foliations, both of which restrict applications to, e.g., multiple speed systems. The proof uses a class of space-time Klainerman-Sobolev estimates of the first author, Tataru, and Tohaneanu, which pair nicely with local energy estimates that combine the $r^{p}$-weighted method of Dafermos and Rodnianski with the ghost weight method of Alinhac. We further refine the standard local energy estimate with a modification of the $\partial_{t} …
The classical Feynman-Kac identity builds a bridge between stochastic analysis and partial differential equations (PDEs) by providing stochastic representations for classical solutions of linear Kolmogorov PDEs. This opens the door for the derivation of sampling based Monte Carlo approximation methods, which can be meshfree and thereby stand a chance to approximate solutions of PDEs without suffering from the curse of dimensionality. In this article we extend the classical Feynman-Kac formula to certain semilinear Kolmogorov PDEs. More specifically, we identify suitable solutions of stochastic…
We obtain a new Liouville comparison principle for weak solutions $(u,v)$ of semilinear parabolic second-order partial differential inequalities of the form $$u_t -{\mathcal L}u- |u|^{q-1}u\geq v_t -{\mathcal L}v- |v|^{q-1}v (*)$$ in the whole space ${\mathbb E} = {\mathbb R} \times \mathbb R^n$. Here, $n\geq 1$, $q>0$ and $$ {\mathcal L}=\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^n\frac{\partial}{{\partial}x_i}\left [ a_{ij}(t, x) \frac{\partial}{{\partial}x_j}\right],$$ where $a_{ij}(t,x)$, $i,j=1,\dots,n$, are functions that are defined, measurable and locally bounded in $\mathbb E$, and such that $a_{ij}(t,x)=a_…
