Large time behavior of solutions to the Neumann problem for a quasilinear second order degenerate parabolic equation in domains with noncompact boundary (Q5945079)

The authors study the optimal rate of stabilization at large time of the solution to the Neumann problem \[ u_t = \sum_{i = 1}^N\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}(a_i(t,x,\nabla u)) -b(x,t,u)\quad \text{in } \Omega\times (0,T),\;T > 0, \] \[ \sum_{i = 1}^Na_i(t,x,\nabla u)n_i = 0 \quad \text{on } \partial\Omega \times (0,T), \] \[ u(x,0) = u_0(x)\quad \text{in }\Omega,\;x \in \Omega,\;u_0(x) \geq 0, \] where \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 2\), is an unbounded domain with sufficiently smooth noncompact boundary \(\partial\Omega\) satisfying a certain so-called isoperemetrical inequality. The main aim of the present article is to find the optimal bound of \(\|u(\cdot,t)\|_{L^\infty(\Omega)}\) for \(t\) large, where \(u\) is a nonnegative solution of the above problem with initial datum belonging to \(L^1(\Omega)\) or slowly decaying at infinity. Moreover, when \(b = 0\), \(m > 1\) and \(u_0\) is compactly supported, it is established a sharp bound of the interface.