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Work with $t>0$ and write $u=t^{-1/2}{e}^{-x^2/(4t)}$. The chain rule givesThus $u_{xx}=u_t$: it is a constant multiple of the one-dimensional Gaussian heat kernel.

For the modified equation, put $f=g(t)u$. Substitution gives $g{u}_{xx}=g^{\prime }u+g{u}_t-gu/t$. The heat-equation terms cancel, and $u>0$ permits division to obtain $\boxed{g^{\prime }=g/t}$. Solving this separable differential equation givesThe zero solution is included by $C=0$. This is the scalar integrating factor for a reaction-diffusion equation with reaction coefficient $1/t$, because the modified equation is $f_t=f_{xx}+f/t$. Its sign produces growth. Indeed ${\int }_{\mathbb{R}}udx=2\sqrt{\pi }$ is constant, while ${\int }_{\mathbb{R}}fdx=2C\sqrt{\pi }t$ increases linearly for $C>0$; neither profile is being assigned unit normalization here.

For $v=(t+1{)}^{2}u$, the derivatives areSubstitution cancels the two terms $2(t+1)u$, giving the diffusion equationThis is a scalar integrating factor for a reaction-diffusion equation, since $\exp [\int 2dt/(t+1)]=(t+1{)}^2$ up to a constant. We use $t\ge 0$, so the factor never vanishes. A classical solution at the initial corners additionally requires compatible data, $h(0)=0$ and $h(\pi )=f(0)$.