Large time behaviour of solutions of the Ricci flow equation on \({\mathbb{R}}^ 2\). (Q5930555)

The author shows that if \(u_0\in L^p_{loc}({\mathbb R}^2)\) for some constant \(p>1,\) \(0\leq u_0\leq (2/\beta)| x| ^{-2},\) and \(u_0(x)-(2/\beta)(| x| ^2+k')^{-1}\in L^1({\mathbb R}^2)\) for some constants \(\beta>0,\) \(k'>0\) then the rescaled function \(w(x,t)=e^{2\beta t}u(e^{\beta t}x,t)\) of the solution \(u\) of the Ricci flow equation \(u_t=\Delta \log u,\) \(u>0,\) in \({\mathbb R}^2\times(0,\infty),\) \(u(x,0)=u_0(x)\) in \({\mathbb R}^2\) converges to \(\phi_{\beta,k_0}(x)=(2/\beta)(| x| ^2+k_0)^{-1}\) in \(L^1({\mathbb R}^2)\) as \(t\to \infty\) where \(k_0>0\) is a constant chosen such that \(\int_{{\mathbb R}^2}(u_0-\phi_{\beta,k_0})dx=0.\) Moreover, if \(u_0\) satisfies in addition the condition \(\phi_{\beta,k_1}\leq u_0\leq \phi_{\beta,k_2}\) for some constants \(k_1>0,\) \(k_2>0\) then \(w\) converges uniformly to \(\phi_{\beta,k_0}\) on every compact subset of \({\mathbb R}^2\) as \(t\to \infty.\)