Long-time dynamics for the energy critical heat equation in $R^5$

TL;DR

This paper studies the long-time behavior of solutions to the energy critical heat equation in five dimensions, revealing decay rates depending on initial data decay and showing they are slower than self-similar decay.

Contribution

It constructs solutions with specific asymptotic decay rates for initial data with polynomial decay, extending understanding of long-time dynamics in critical heat equations.

Findings

Existence of solutions with prescribed decay rates based on initial data.

Decay rates depend on the decay exponent of initial data, with different regimes identified.

Decay is slower than the classical self-similar rate, indicating more complex long-term behavior.

Abstract

We investigate the long-time behavior of global solutions to the energy critical heat equation in $R^5$ \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \pp_t u=\Delta u+|u|^{\frac{4}{3}} u ~&\mbox{ in }~ R^5 \times (t_0,\infty), u(\cdot,t_0)=u_0~&\mbox{ in }~ R^5. \end{cases} \end{equation*} For $t_0$ sufficiently large, we show the existence of positive solutions for a class of initial value $u_0(x)\sim |x|^{-\gamma}$ as $|x|\rightarrow \infty$ with $\gamma>\frac32$ such that the global solutions behave asymptotically \begin{equation*} \| u(\cdot,t) \|_{L^\infty (\R^5)} \sim \begin{cases} t^{-\frac{3(2-\gamma)}{2}} ~&\mbox{ if }~ \frac32<\gamma<2 (\ln t)^{-3} ~&\mbox{ if }~ \gamma=2 1 ~&\mbox{ if }~ \gamma>2 \end{cases} \mbox{ \ for \ } t >t_0, \end{equation*} which is slower than the self-similar time decay $t^{-\frac{3}{4}}$. These rates are inspired by Fila-King \cite[Conjecture 1.1]{FilaKing12}.