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Threshold for blowup for the supercritical cubic wave equation

Analysis of PDEs 2020-04-22 v2 Numerical Analysis Mathematical Physics math.MP Numerical Analysis Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider the focusing cubic wave equation in the energy supercritical case, i.e., in dimensions d5d \geq 5. For this model an explicit nontrivial self-similar blowup solution was recently found by the first and third author in \cite{GlogicSchoerkhuber}. Furthermore, the solution is proven to be co-dimension one stable in d=7d=7. In this paper, we study the equation from a numerical point of view. For d=5d=5 and d=7d=7 in the radial case, we provide evidence that this solution is at the threshold between generic ODE blowup and dispersion. In addition, we investigate the spectral problem that underlies the stability analysis and compute the spectrum in general supercritical dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1905.13739,
  title  = {Threshold for blowup for the supercritical cubic wave equation},
  author = {Irfan Glogić and Maciej Maliborski and Birgit Schörkhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13739},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; v2 introduction restructured, sections 2 and 3 expanded, accepted for publication in Nonlinearity