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Self-similar blowup for the cubic Schr\"odinger equation

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-10 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a rigorous proof for the existence of a finite-energy, self-similar solution to the focusing cubic Schr\"odinger equation in three spatial dimensions. The proof is computer-assisted and relies on a fixed point argument that shows the existence of a solution in the vicinity of a numerically constructed approximation. The latter is obtained by a standard pseudo-spectral method. The computer-assisted part of the rigorous proof uses nothing but fraction arithmetic in order to obtain quantitative bounds for the fixed point argument.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16597,
  title  = {Self-similar blowup for the cubic Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {Roland Donninger and Birgit Schörkhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16597},
  year   = {2025}
}

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83 pages, significant improvements in presentation, Wolfram Mathematica notebooks included