The nonlinear heat equation with a fractional Laplacian $[u_t+{(-\Delta )}^{\alpha /2}u=u^2,0<\alpha \le 2]$, is considered in a unit ball $B$. Homogeneous boundary conditions and small initial conditions are examined. For 3/2 + ε₁ ≤ α ≤ 2, where ε₁ > 0 is small, the global-in-time mild solution from the space $C⁰([0,\infty ),H{₀}^{\kappa }\left(B\right))$ with κ < α - 1/2 is constructed in the form of an eigenfunction expansion series. The uniqueness is proved for 0 < κ < α - 1/2, and the higher-order long-time asymptotics is calculated.

We give a sufficient condition for the existence of a Lyapunov function for the system aₜ = ∇(k(a,c)∇a - h(a,c)∇c), x ∈ Ω, t > 0, $\epsilon cₜ=k_c\Delta c-f\left(c\right)c+g(a,c)$, x ∈ Ω, t > 0, for $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$, completed with either a = c = 0, or ∂a/∂n = ∂c/∂n = 0, or k(a,c) ∂a/∂n = h(a,c) ∂c/∂n, c = 0 on ∂Ω × t > 0. Furthermore we study the asymptotic behaviour of the solution and give some uniform $L^p$-estimates.