Asymptotic behaviour of singular solution of the fast diffusion equation in the punctured Euclidean space

TL;DR

This paper studies the asymptotic behavior and existence of singular self-similar solutions to the fast diffusion equation in punctured Euclidean space, providing detailed asymptotics near the origin and at infinity.

Contribution

It establishes existence, uniqueness, and asymptotics of singular self-similar solutions in punctured space, extending understanding of the fast diffusion equation's behavior near singularities.

Findings

Existence and uniqueness of singular self-similar solutions near the origin.

Asymptotic behavior of solutions as time approaches infinity.

Bounds on solutions based on initial data between specific self-similar solutions.

Abstract

For $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\beta<0$ and $\alpha=\frac{2\beta}{1-m}$, we prove the existence, uniqueness and asymptotics near the origin of the singular eternal self-similar solutions of the fast diffusion equation in $(\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\})\times \mathbb{R}$ of the form $U_{\lambda}(x,t)=e^{-\alpha t}f_{\lambda}(e^{-\beta t}x), x\in \mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}, t\in\mathbb{R},$ where $f_{\lambda}$ is a radially symmetric function satisfying $$\frac{n-1}{m}\Delta f^m+\alpha f+\beta x\cdot\nabla f=0 \text{ in }\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\},$$ with $\underset{\substack{r\to 0}}{\lim}\frac{r^2f(r)^{1-m}}{\log r^{-1}}=\frac{2(n-1)(n-2-nm)}{|\beta|(1-m)}$ and $\underset{\substack{r\to\infty}}{\lim}r^{\frac{n-2}{m}}f(r)=\lambda^{\frac{2}{1-m}-\frac{n-2}{m}}$, for some constant $\lambda>0$. As a consequence we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of Cauchy problem for the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\frac{n-1}{m}\Delta u^m$ in $(\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\})\times (0,\infty)$ with initial value $u_0$ satisfying $f_{\lambda_1}(x)\le u_0(x)\le f_{\lambda_2}(x)$, $\forall x\in\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}$, which satisfies $U_{\lambda_1}(x,t)\le u(x,t)\le U_{\lambda_2}(x,t)$, $\forall x\in \mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}, t\ge 0$, for some constants $\lambda_1>\lambda_2>0$. We also prove the asymptotic behaviour of such singular solution $u$ of the fast diffusion equation as $t\to\infty$ when $n=3,4$ and $\frac{n-2}{n+2}\le m<\frac{n-2}{n}$ holds. Asymptotic behaviour of such singular solution $u$ of the fast diffusion equation as $t\to\infty$ is also obtained when $3\le n<8$, $1-\sqrt{2/n}\le m<\min\left(\frac{2(n-2)}{3n},\frac{n-2}{n+2}\right)$, and $u(x,t)$ is radially symmetric in $x\in\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}$ for any $t>0$ under appropriate conditions on the initial value $u_0$.