On the behaviour as t\(\to \infty\) of the solutions of the Cauchy problem for certain nonlinear parabolic equations (Q1101886)

The authors are interested in the large time behaviour of nonnegative solutions of the following two Cauchy problems: \[ (PM)\quad u_ t=\Delta u^ m\quad in\quad {\mathbb{R}}^ n\times (0,\infty);\quad u(x,0)=\phi (x)\quad in\quad {\mathbb{R}}^ n \] and \[ (PMA)\quad v_ t=\Delta v^ m-v^ p\quad in\quad {\mathbb{R}}^ n\times (0,\infty);\quad v(x,0)=\phi (x)\quad in\quad {\mathbb{R}}^ n, \] where \(n\geq 1\), \(m\geq 1\), \(p>m+2/n\) and \(\phi\) (x) is a given bounded nonnegative function. They first prove that if \(| x|^ n \phi (x)\to A(| x| \to \infty)\), then for the solution u of (PM), \[ \lim_{t\to \infty}\tau^{\ell} | u(x,t)/B\ell_ n\tau -E(x,\tau)| =0, \] where \(t\cong B^{1-m}(\tau /(\ell_ n\tau)^{m-1})\), \(\ell =n/(2+n(m- 1))\), B is some constant depending on n, m and A, and E is the Barenblatt-Pattle solution with \(\| \phi \|_{L^ 1}=1\). This is different from its behaviour in the two cases (i) \(\alpha >n\) [cf. \textit{A. Friedmann} and the first author, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 262, 551-563 (1980; Zbl 0447.76076)]. (ii) \(0<\alpha <n\) [cf. \textit{N. D. Alikakos} and \textit{R. Rostamian}, Isr. J. Math. 47, 270-290 (1984; Zbl 0562.35050)], where \(\lim_{| x| \to \infty}| x|^{\alpha} \phi (x)=A>0\). Next, they apply the technique to the problem (PMA) and obtain similar results.