Global attractivity and convergence rate in the weighted norm for a supercritical semilinear heat equation. (Q499050)

When \(N\geq 11\) and \(p>p_{JL} := [(N-2)^2 - 4N + 8\sqrt{N-1}]/(N-2)(N-10)\), the superlinear semilinear heat equation \(\partial u_t = \Delta u + |u|^{p-1} u\), \(t>0\), \(x\in\mathbb{R}^N\), has a one-parameter family \((\phi_\alpha)_{\alpha>0}\) of classical radially symmetric and positive stationary solutions with the following properties: \(\phi_\alpha(0)=\alpha\), \(\phi_\alpha<\phi_\beta\) for \(\alpha<\beta\), and \(\phi_\alpha \to \phi_\infty\) as \(\alpha\to\infty\), where \(\phi_\infty(x) = L |x|^{-m}\) for \(x\neq 0\), \(m=2/(p-1)\), and \(L=(m(N-2)-N)^{1/(p-1)}\). Introducing \[ \lambda_1 = \frac{N-2-2m- \sqrt{(N-2-m)^2 - 8(N-2-m)}}{2}>0\;, \] the stability of \(\phi_\alpha\) is studied in weighted \(L^\infty\)-spaces of the form \(L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N; (1+|x|)^l dx)\) for suitable values of \(l\). More specifically, it is shown that, given \(\varepsilon>0\) and \(\alpha>0\), there is \(\delta>0\) such that \[ \limsup_{t\to\infty} \vartheta(\sqrt{t}) \sup_{x\in\mathbb{R}^N} [(1+|x|)^{m+\lambda_1} |u(t,x)-\phi_\alpha(x)|] \leq \varepsilon \] as soon as the initial condition \(u_0\) satisfies \[ \limsup_{|x|\to\infty} |x|^{m+\lambda_1} \vartheta(|x|) |u_0(x) - \phi_\alpha(x)| \leq \delta\, \quad |u_0| \leq \phi_\infty\;, \] the function \(\vartheta\) being either identically equal to one or a non-negative unbounded increasing and concave function growing slower than any algebraic power at infinity (in the sense that \(r\vartheta'(r)/\vartheta(r)\to 0\) as \(r\to\infty\)). The optimality of these estimates is discussed as well as the convergence as \(t\to\infty\) of \(u(t)\) towards \(\phi_\alpha\).