Asymptotic behaviors of solutions to evolution equations in the presence of translation and scaling invariance

There are wide classes of nonlinear evolution equations which possess invariant properties with respect to a scaling and translations. If a solution is invariant under the scaling then it is called a self-similar solution, which is a candidate for the asymptotic profile of general solutions at large time. In this paper we establish an abstract framework to find more precise asymptotic profiles by shifting self-similar solutions suitably. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.