Stability of global solutions to one-phase Stefan problem for a semilinear parabolic equation. (Q4457250)

The authors consider the one-phase Stefan problem SP: \(u_t = u_{xx} + u^{1+\alpha }\), \(0<t<T\), \(0<x<\ell (t)\), \(\ell '(t) = - u_x (t,\ell (t))\), \(u(0,x) = u_0(x)\), \(\ell (0)=\ell _0\) (with free boundary \(x=\ell (t)\)). Extending their foregoing results [see Ann. Mat. Pura Appl., IV. Ser. 175, 327--337 (1998; Zbl 0954.35154)], they establish stability of a global solution to SP in the following sense: If \(\alpha > 1\) and \(\{u,\ell \}\) is a global solution such that \(\ell (t) \leq L\) for \(t\geq 0\) and \(| u(t,x)| \leq M \exp (-\mu t)\) for \(t\geq 0\), \(x\geq 0\) with positive constants \(L,M,\mu \), then there exists a constant \(\delta >0\) such that if \(| u_0 - \widehat u_0| _{L^p(0,\infty )}<\delta \) with \(p>1\), the problem SP with initial data \(\widehat u_0, \widehat {\ell }_0\) has a solution \(\{\widehat {u}, \widehat {\ell }\}\) such that \(\widehat {\ell }\) is bounded and \(| \widehat u(t)| _{L^{\infty }(0,\widehat {e}(t))}\) decays exponentially.