# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2017, 37(11): 5943-5977. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017258

## Asymptotic large time behavior of singular solutions of the fast diffusion equation

 1 Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

* Corresponding author: Soojung Kim

Received  December 2016 Revised  June 2017 Published  July 2017

We study the asymptotic large time behavior of singular solutions of the fast diffusion equation
 $u_t=Δ u^m$
in
 $({\mathbb R}^n\setminus\{0\})×(0, ∞)$
in the subcritical case
 $0 , $n≥3$. Firstly, we prove the existence of the singular solution $u$of the above equation that is trapped in between self-similar solutions of the form of $t^{-α} f_i(t^{-β}x)$, $i=1, 2$, with the initial value $u_0$satisfying $A_1|x|^{-γ}≤ u_0≤ A_2|x|^{-γ}$for some constants $A_2>A_1>0$and $\frac{2}{1-m}<γ<\frac{n-2}{m}$, where $β:=\frac{1}{2-γ(1-m)}$,$α:=\frac{2\beta-1}{1-m}, $and the self-similar profile $f_i$satisfies the elliptic equation $Δ f^m+α f+β x· \nabla f=0 \,\,\,\,\,\,\mbox{ in ${\mathbb R}^n\setminus\{0\}$}$with$\lim_{|x|\to0}|x|^{\frac{ α}{ β}}f_i(x)=A_i$and$\lim_{|x|\to∞}|x|^{\frac{n-2}{m}}{f_i}(x)= D_{A_i} $for some constants$D_{A_i}>0$. When$\frac{2}{1-m} < γ < 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, τ):= t^{\, α} u(t^{\, β} y, t),\,\,\,\,\,\, { τ:=\log t}, $converges to some self-similar profile$f$as$τ\to∞$. Citation: Kin Ming Hui, Soojung Kim. Asymptotic large time behavior of singular solutions of the fast diffusion equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2017, 37 (11) : 5943-5977. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2017258 ##### References:  [1] D. G. Aronson, The porous medium equation, Nonlinear diffusion problems, (Montecatini Terme, 1985), 1-46, Lecture Notes in Math., 1224, Springer, Berlin, 1986. doi: 10.1007/BFb0072687. Google Scholar [2] A. Blanchet, M. Bonforte, J. Dolbeault, G. Grillo and J. L. Vázquez, Asymptotics of the fast diffusion equation via entropy estimates, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 191 (2009), 347-385. doi: 10.1007/s00205-008-0155-z. Google Scholar [3] M. Bonforte, J. Dolbeault, G. Grillo and J. L. Vázquez, Sharp rates of decay of solutions to the nonlinear fast diffusion equation via functional inequalities, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107 (2010), 16459-16464. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1003972107. Google Scholar [4] E. Chasseigne and J. L. 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Vázquez, Nonexistence of solutions for nonlinear heat equations of fast-diffusion type, J. Math. Pures Appl.(9), 71 (1992), 503-526.   Google Scholar [26] J. L. Vázquez, Smoothing and Decay Estimates for Nonlinear Diffusion Equations. Equations of Porous Medium Type, Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and its Applications 33, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199202973.001.0001.  Google Scholar [27] J. L. Vázquez and M. Winkler, The evolution of singularities in fast diffusion equations: Infinite time blow-down, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 43 (2011), 1499-1535.  doi: 10.1137/100809465.  Google Scholar [28] R. Ye, Global existence and convergence of Yamabe flow, J. Differential Geom., 39 (1994), 35-50.  doi: 10.4310/jdg/1214454674.  Google Scholar
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