Optimal lower bound of the grow-up rate for a supercritical parabolic equation

We study the behavior of solutions of the Cauchy problem for a supercritical semilinear parabolic equation which approach a singular steady state from below as t→∞. It is known that the grow-up rate of such solutions depends on the spatial decay rate of initial data. We give an optimal lower bound on the grow-up rate by using a comparison technique based on a formal asymptotic analysis.