We study two initial value problems of the linear diffusion equation
ut =
uxx and the nonlinear diffusion equation
ut = (1 +
ux2)
−1uxx, when Cauchy data
u(
x,0) =
u0(
x) are bounded and oscillate mildly. The latter nonlinear heat equation is the equation of the curvature flow, when the moving curves are represented by graphs. In the case of lim
|x|→+∞|
xu′
0(
x)|= 0, by using an elementary scaling technique, we show
lim
t→+∞|
u($\sqrt{t}$
x,t) − (
F(−
x)
u0(−$\sqrt{t}$) +
F(+
x)
u0(+ $\sqrt{t}$))| = 0
for the linear heat equation
ut =
uxx, where
x ∈
R and
F(
z): = $\frac{1}{2\sqrt \pi}\int_{-\infty}^z e^{-\frac{y^2}{4}} dy$. Further, by combining with a theorem of Nara and Taniguchi, we have the same result for the curvature equation
ut = (1 +
ux2)
−1uxx. In the case of lim
|x|→+0|
xu′
0(
x)| = 0 and in the case of sup
x∈R|
xu′
0(
x)| < +∞, respectively, we also give a similar remark for the linear heat equation
ut =
uxx.
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