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Construction of type II blowup solutions for the 1-corotational energy supercritical wave maps

Analysis of PDEs 2018-05-21 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We consider the energy supercritical wave maps from Rd\mathbb{R}^d into the dd-sphere Sd\mathbb{S}^d with d7d \geq 7. Under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear wave equation t2u=r2u+(d1)rru(d1)2r2sin(2u).\partial_t^2 u = \partial^2_r u + \frac{(d-1)}{r}\partial_r u - \frac{(d-1)}{2r^2}\sin(2u). We construct for this equation a family of C\mathcal{C}^{\infty} solutions which blow up in finite time via concentration of the universal profile u(r,t)Q(rλ(t)),u(r,t) \sim Q\left(\frac{r}{\lambda(t)}\right), where QQ is the stationary solution of the equation and the speed is given by the quantized rates λ(t)cu(Tt)γ,N,    >γ=γ(d)(1,2].\lambda(t) \sim c_u(T-t)^\frac{\ell}{\gamma}, \quad \ell \in \mathbb{N}^*, \;\; \ell > \gamma = \gamma(d) \in (1,2]. The construction relies on two arguments: the reduction of the problem to a finite-dimensional one thanks to a robust universal energy method and modulation techniques developed by Merle, Rapha\"el and Rodnianski for the energy supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, then we proceed by contradiction to solve the finite-dimensional problem and conclude using the Brouwer fixed point theorem.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.05685,
  title  = {Construction of type II blowup solutions for the 1-corotational energy supercritical wave maps},
  author = {Tej-Eddine Ghoul and Slim Ibrahim and Van Tien Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05685},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

We added Remark 1.7 to comment about the continuum and discrete quantization of blowup rates. We also added references and corrected many typos. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1611.08877