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Scattering and stability for ODE-type blow-up surfaces for focusing nonlinear wave equations

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-04 v1

Abstract

We study the focusing power nonlinear wave equation with any power, in Minkowski space of any spacetime dimension. We present a complete understanding of the local stability and scattering theory (both in high regularity spaces) for solutions exhibiting ODE type blow-up on spacelike hypersurfaces, with the blow-up at each point modelled by the explicit solution ϕmodel=cptαp\phi_{\mathrm{model}} = c_p t^{-\alpha_p}. Given a sufficiently regular spacelike hypersurface Σf\Sigma_f, together with auxiliary scattering data ψ\psi, we construct the unique corresponding solution to the nonlinear wave equation that (locally) forms an ODE type singularity on Σf\Sigma_f attaining ψ\psi as scattering data. Conversely, we show that such ODE type singularities are (locally) stable to suitably regular perturbations away from the singularity, and that the blow-up surface and scattering data remain regular, in a continuously dependent manner, following such perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.2602.02715,
  title  = {Scattering and stability for ODE-type blow-up surfaces for focusing nonlinear wave equations},
  author = {Istvan Kadar and Warren Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02715},
  year   = {2026}
}

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45 pages

R2 v1 2026-07-01T09:32:53.619Z