Large time behaviour of solutions of a singular diffusion equation in \(\mathbb R^n\) (Q2486617)

In this paper the asymptotic behaviour of the global solution of the problem: \[ \begin{aligned} u_t=\Delta\log u,\quad u> 0&\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^n\times (0,\infty),\\ u(x,0)= u_0(x)&\quad\text{in }\mathbb{R}^n\end{aligned}\tag{1} \] for \(n\geq 2\) under a very general condition on \(u_0\) is studied. Let \(A>0\), \(n\geq 2> q\), \({n\over 2}< p<{n\over q}\), \(u_0=\overline u_0+\phi\geq 0\), where \[ \phi\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\cap L^p(\mathbb{R}^n),\quad 0< \overline u_0\in L^p_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R}^n),\tag{2} \] satisfy \[ A(1- 1/k)|x|^{-q}\leq \overline u_0(x)\leq A(1+ 1/k)|x|^{-q}\;\forall |x|\geq R_{0,k},\;k= 2,3,\dots\tag{3} \] and \[ A(1- 1/k)|x|^{-q}+ \phi(x)\geq 0\;\forall R_{0,k}\leq |x|< R_{0,k+1},\;k= 2,3,\dots\tag{4} \] for some constants \(0< R_{0,k}< R_{0,k+1}\) \(\forall k= 2,3,\dots\). Suppose \(u\) is the maximal global solution of (1) and \(\psi\) is the unique self-similar solution of the equation with initial value \(A|x|^{-q}\). Then the rescaled function \(v(x,t)= t^{q/(2-q)} u(t^{1/(2-q)} x,t)\) is proved to converge uniformly on every compact subset of \(\mathbb{R}^n\) to \(\psi(x,1)\) as \(t\to+\infty\). \textit{J. S. Guo} [Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 21, No. 9--10, 1349--1365 (1996; Zbl 0864.35049)] has obtained the asymptotic behaviour of global solutions of this problem for strictly positive \(u_0\in C(\mathbb{R}^n)\) satisfying \(\lim_{|x|\to\infty}\,u_0(x)|x|^q= A\) for some constants \(A> 0\) and \(q< 2\). If \(u_0\) satisfies above condition, then \(u_0\) satisfies conditions (2), (3) and (4) with \(\overline u_0= u_0\) and \(\phi= 0\) for any constant \(p\in(n/2, n/q)\). Hence, this result extends the result of Guo.