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Asymptotic Behaviour of a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation with Gradient Absorption and Critical Exponent

Razvan Gabriel Iagar·Philippe Laurençot·Juan Luis Vázquez
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We study the large-time behaviour of the solutions of the evolution equation involving nonlinear diffusion and gradient absorption, $$ \partial_t u - Δ_p u + |\nabla u|^q=0 . $$ We consider the problem posed for $x\in \real^N$ and t>0 with nonnegative and compactly supported initial data. We take the exponent p>2 which corresponds to slow p-Laplacian diffusion. The main feature of the paper is that the exponent q takes the critical value q=p-1 which leads to interesting asymptotics. This is due to the fact that in this case both the Hamilton-Jacobi term $ |\nabla u|^q$ and the diffusive term $Δ_p u$ have a similar size for large times. The study performed in this paper shows that a delicate asymptotic equilibrium happens, so that the large-time behaviour of the solutions is described by a rescaled version of a suitable self-similar solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation $|\nabla W|^{p-1}=W$, with logarithmic time corrections. The asymptotic rescaled profile is a kind of sandpile with a cusp on top, and it is independent of the space dimension.

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Razvan Gabriel Iagar, Philippe Laurençot, Juan Luis Vázquez. 2010-02-10. Asymptotic Behaviour of a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation with Gradient Absorption and Critical Exponent. https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2094

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