Nonexistence of solutions for indefinite fractional parabolic equations

We study fractional parabolic equations with indefinite nonlinearities $$ frac{partial u} {partial t}(x,t) +(-Delta)^s u(x,t)= x_1 u^p(x, t),,, (x, t) in mathbb{R}^n times mathbb{R}, $$ where $0<s<1$ and $1<p<infty$. We first prove that all positive bounded solutions are monotone increasing along the $x_1$ direction. Based on this we derive a contradiction and hence obtain non-existence of solutions. These monotonicity and nonexistence results are crucial tools in a priori estimates and complete blow-up for fractional parabolic equations in bounded domains. To this end, we introduce several new ideas and developed a systematic approach which may also be applied to investigate qualitative properties of solutions for many other fractional parabolic problems.