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In this paper we study global well-posedness and long time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the nonlinear heat equation with absorption, $ u_t - Delta u + |u|^alpha u =0$, where $u=u(t,x)in {mathbb R}, $ $(t,x)in (0,infty)times{mathbb R}^N$ and $alpha>0$. We focus particularly on highly singular initial values which are antisymmetric with respect to the variables $x_1,; x_2,; cdots,; x_m$ for some $min {1,2, cdots, N}$, such as $u_0 = (-1)^mpartial_1partial_2 cdots partial_m|cdot|^{-gamma} in {{mathcal S}({mathbb R}^N)}$, $0 < gamma < N$. In fact, we show global well-posedness for initial data bounded in an appropriate sense by $u_0$, for any $alpha>0$. Our approach is to study well-posedness and large time behavior on sectorial domains of the form $Omega_m = {x in {{mathbb R}^N} : x_1, cdots, x_m > 0}$, and then to extend the results by reflection to solutions on ${{mathbb R}^N}$ which are antisymmetric. We show that the large time behavior depends on the relationship between $alpha$ and $2/(gamma+m)$, and we consider all three cases, $alpha$ equal to, greater than, and less than $2/(gamma+m)$. Our results include, among others, new examples of self-similar and asymptotically self-similar solutions.
In this paper we prove local existence of solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $u_t = Delta u +a |u|^alpha u, ; tin(0,T),; x=(x_1,,cdots,, x_N)in {mathbb R}^N,; a = pm 1,; alpha>0;$ with initial value $u(0)in L^1_{rm{loc}}left({mathbb R}^Nsetminus{0}right)$, anti-symmetric with respect to $x_1,; x_2,; cdots,; x_m$ and $|u(0)|leq C(-1)^mpartial_{1}partial_{2}cdot cdot cdot partial_{m}(|x|^{-gamma})$ for $x_1>0,; cdots,; x_m>0,$ where $C>0$ is a constant, $min {1,; 2,; cdots,; N},$ $0<gamma<N$ and $0<alpha<2/(gamma+m).$ This gives a local existence result with highly singular initial values. As an application, for $a=1,$ we establish new blowup criteria for $0<alphaleq 2/(gamma+m)$, including the case $m=0.$ Moreover, if $(N-4)alpha<2,$ we prove the existence of initial values $u_0 = lambda f,$ for which the resulting solution blows up in finite time $T_{max}(lambda f),$ if $lambda>0$ is sufficiently small. We also construct blowing up solutions with initial data $lambda_n f$ such that $lambda_n^{[({1over alpha}-{gamma+mover 2})^{-1}]}T_{max}(lambda_n f)$ has different finite limits along different sequences $lambda_nto 0$. Our result extends the known small lambda blow up results for new values of $alpha$ and a new class of initial data.
We study the asymptotic large time behavior of singular solutions of the fast diffusion equation $u_t=Delta u^m$ in $({mathbb R}^nsetminus{0})times(0,infty)$ in the subcritical case $0<m<frac{n-2}{n}$, $nge3$. Firstly, we prove the existence of singular solution $u$ of the above equation that is trapped in between self-similar solutions of the form of $t^{-alpha} f_i(t^{-beta}x)$, $i=1,2$, with initial value $u_0$ satisfying $A_1|x|^{-gamma}le u_0le A_2|x|^{-gamma}$ for some constants $A_2>A_1>0$ and $frac{2}{1-m}<gamma<frac{n-2}{m}$, where $beta:=frac{1}{2-gamma(1-m)}$, $alpha:=frac{2beta-1}{1-m},$ and the self-similar profile $f_i$ satisfies the elliptic equation $$ Delta f^m+alpha f+beta xcdot abla f=0quad mbox{in ${mathbb R}^nsetminus{0}$} $$ with $lim_{|x|to0}|x|^{frac{ alpha}{ beta}}f_i(x)=A_i$ and $lim_{|x|toinfty}|x|^{frac{n-2}{m}}{f_i}(x)= D_{A_i} $ for some constants $D_{A_i}>0$. When $frac{2}{1-m}<gamma<n$, under an integrability condition on the initial value $u_0$ of the singular solution $u$, we prove that the rescaled function $$ tilde u(y,tau):= t^{,alpha} u(t^{,beta} y,t),quad{ tau:=log t}, $$ converges to some self-similar profile $f$ as $tautoinfty$.
We consider the nonlinear heat equation $u_t - Delta u = |u|^alpha u$ on ${mathbb R}^N$, where $alpha >0$ and $Nge 1$. We prove that in the range $0 < alpha <frac {4} {N-2}$, for every $mu >0$, there exist infinitely many sign-changing, self-similar solutions to the Cauchy problem with initial value $u_0 (x)= mu |x|^{-frac {2} {alpha }}$. The construction is based on the analysis of the related inverted profile equation. In particular, we construct (sign-changing) self-similar solutions for positive initial values for which it is known that there does not exist any local, nonnegative solution.
We study two initial value problems of the linear diffusion equation and a nonlinear diffusion equation, when Cauchy data are bounded and oscillate mildly. The latter nonlinear heat equation is the equation of the curvature flow, when the moving curves are represented by graphs. By using an elementary scaling technique, we show some formulas for space-time behavior of the solution. Keywords: scaling argument, self-similar solution, nonstabilizing solution, nontrivial dynamics, nontrivial large-time behavior, irregular behavior.
We study the existence of sign-changing solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $partial _t u = Delta u + |u|^alpha u$ on ${mathbb R}^N $, $Nge 3$, with $frac {2} {N-2} < alpha <alpha _0$, where $alpha _0=frac {4} {N-4+2sqrt{ N-1 } }in (frac {2} {N-2}, frac {4} {N-2})$, which are singular at $x=0$ on an interval of time. In particular, for certain $mu >0$ that can be arbitrarily large, we prove that for any $u_0 in mathrm{L} ^infty _{mathrm{loc}} ({mathbb R}^N setminus { 0 }) $ which is bounded at infinity and equals $mu |x|^{- frac {2} {alpha }}$ in a neighborhood of $0$, there exists a local (in time) solution $u$ of the nonlinear heat equation with initial value $u_0$, which is sign-changing, bounded at infinity and has the singularity $beta |x|^{- frac {2} {alpha }}$ at the origin in the sense that for $t>0$, $ |x|^{frac {2} {alpha }} u(t,x) to beta $ as $ |x| to 0$, where $beta = frac {2} {alpha } ( N -2 - frac {2} {alpha } ) $. These solutions in general are neither stationary nor self-similar.