Stability of self-similar solutions to geometric flows (Q6166033)

The authors investigate the problem \begin{align*} \partial_tu+Au&= N[u],\quad (x, t)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times (0, \infty),\\ u(x, 0)&= u_0(x),\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^n, \end{align*} where \(A=-\Delta\), \(N[u]\) is a nonlinear term, \(u_0(x)=v_0(x)+p(x)\), \(x\in \mathbb{R}^n\), \(p\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n)\). They study the stability of self-similar solutions under bounded and small perturbations of self-similar initial data. The authors prove the local-in-space convergence of a perturbed solution. They prove a global-in-space convergence result under a spatial decaying assumption on the initial perturbation. For the proof of the main results, the authors use certain global analytic solutions, compactness arguments and the spatial equi-decay properties on certain weighted function spaces.