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Hyperboloidal evolution and global dynamics for the focusing cubic wave equation

Analysis of PDEs 2017-05-16 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The focusing cubic wave equation in three spatial dimensions has the explicit solution 2/t\sqrt{2}/t. We study the stability of the blowup described by this solution as t0t \to 0 without symmetry restrictions on the data. Via the conformal invariance of the equation we obtain a companion result for the stability of slow decay in the framework of a hyperboloidal initial value formulation. More precisely, we identify a codimension-1 Lipschitz manifold of initial data leading to solutions which converge to Lorentz boosts of 2/t\sqrt{2}/t as tt\to\infty. These global solutions thus exhibit a slow nondispersive decay, in contrast to small data evolutions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1511.08600,
  title  = {Hyperboloidal evolution and global dynamics for the focusing cubic wave equation},
  author = {Annegret Y. Burtscher and Roland Donninger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.08600},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

39 pages, 6 figures; in v2 introduction improved, result about blowup stability (Thm. 1.2) formulated explicitely

R2 v1 2026-06-22T11:55:24.036Z