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

For $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $β<0$ and $α=\frac{2β}{1-m}$, 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 $U_λ(x,t)=e^{-αt}f_λ(e^{-βt}x), x\in \mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}, t\in\mathbb{R},$ where $f_λ$ is a radially symmetric function satisfying $$\frac{n-1}{m}Δf^m+αf+βx\cdot\nabla f=0 \text{ in }\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\},$$ with $\underset{\substack{r\to 0}}{\lim}\frac{r^2f(r)^{1-m}}{\log r^{-1}}=\frac{2(n-1)(n-2-nm)}{|β|(1-m)}$ and $\underset{\substack{r\to\infty}}{\lim}r^{\frac{n-2}{m}}f(r)=λ^{\frac{2}{1-m}-\frac{n-2}{m}}$, for some constant $λ>0$. As a consequence we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions of Cauchy problem for the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\frac{n-1}{m}Δu^m$ in $(\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\})\times (0,\infty)$ with initial value $u_0$ satisfying $f_{λ_1}(x)\le u_0(x)\le f_{λ_2}(x)$, $\forall x\in\mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}$, which satisfies $U_{λ_1}(x,t)\le u(x,t)\le U_{λ_2}(x,t)$, $\forall x\in \mathbb{R}^n\setminus\{0\}, t\ge 0$, for some constants $λ_1>λ_2>0$. 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 $u_0$.