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Applied Mathematics Letters 24, 1 (2011) 76 - 81
Improved intermediate asymptotics for the heat equation
Jean-Philippe Bartier 1, Adrien Blanchet 2, Jean Dolbeault 1, Miguel Escobedo 3
(2011)

This letter is devoted to results on intermediate asymptotics for the heat equation. We study the convergence towards a stationary solution in self-similar variables. By assuming the equality of some moments of the initial data and of the stationary solution, we get improved convergence rates using entropy / entropy-production methods. We establish the equivalence of the exponential decay of the entropies with new, improved functional inequalities in restricted classes of functions. This letter is the counterpart in a linear framework of a recent work on fast diffusion equations, see [Bonforte-Dolbeault-Grillo-Vazquez]. Results extend to the case of a Fokker-Planck equation with a general confining potential.
1:  CEntre de REcherches en MAthématiques de la DEcision (CEREMADE)
CNRS : UMR7534 – Université Paris IX - Paris Dauphine
2:  Groupe de recherche en économie mathématique et quantitative (GREMAQ)
CNRS : UMR5604 – Université des Sciences Sociales - Toulouse I – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] – Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) : UMR
3:  Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad del País Vasco
Mathematics/Analysis of PDEs
Heat equation – Fokker-Planck equation – Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation – intermediate asymptotics – self-similar variables – stationary solutions – large time behavior – rate of convergence – entropy – PoincarŽ inequality – logarithmic Sobolev inequality – interpolation inequalities
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