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Several classes of self-similar, spherically symmetric solutions of relativistic wave equation with nonlinear term of the form sign(\phi) are presented. They are constructed from cubic polynomials in the scale invariant variable t/r. One…

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This paper discusses the solutions to the perturbed wave equation containing a singular potential term in the Lorentzian metric. We present the classical solution to the problem using the separation of variables method for any dimension, n.…

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We study singularity formation in two one-dimensional nonlinear wave models with quadratic time-derivative nonlinearities. The non-null model violates the null condition and typically develops finite-time blow-up; the null-form model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Jie Liu , Faiq Raees

We show that the solutions to the curvature flow (CF) for curves on the 2-dimensional light cone are in correspondence with the solutions to the inverse curvature flow (ICF). We prove that the ellipses and the hyperboles are the only curves…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Fabio Nunes da Silva , Keti Tenenblat

We consider the Cauchy problem for the wave equation in a general class of spherically symmetric black hole geometries. Under certain mild conditions on the far-field decay and the singularity, we show that there is a unique globally smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-14 Matthew P. Masarik

We prove that in three space dimensions a nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u = u^p$ with $p\geq 7$ being an odd integer has a countable family of regular spherically symmetric self-similar solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-07 P. Bizon , D. Maison , A. Wasserman

We study the orbital stability of smooth solitary wave solutions of the Novikov equation, which is a Camassa-Holm type equation with cubic nonlinearities. These solitary waves are shown to exist as a one-parameter family (up to spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Brett Ehrman , Mathew A. Johnson , Stéphane Lafortune

We consider co-rotational wave maps from (3+1) Minkowski space into the three-sphere. This is an energy supercritical model which is known to exhibit finite time blow up via self-similar solutions. The ground state self-similar solution…

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In this paper we will study the stability properties of self-similar solutions of 1-d cubic NLS equations with time-dependent coefficients of the form iu_t+u_{xx}+\frac{u}{2} (|u|^2-\frac{A}{t})=0, A\in \R (cubic). The study of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Susana Gutierrez , Luis Vega

We study both analytically and numerically a coupled system of spherically symmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills-dilaton equation in 3+1 Minkowski space-time. It has been found that the system admits a hidden scale invariance which becomes transparent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. E. Donets , O. I. Streltsova , T. L. Boyadjiev

We consider the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in three spatial dimensions with powers close to three and prove the existence of a self-similar solution. This generalizes a previous result on the cubic case and shows that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Roland Donninger , Lorenz Lichtnecker

We extend earlier numerical and analytical considerations of the conformally invariant wave equation on a Schwarzschild background from the case of spherically symmetric solutions, discussed in Class. Quantum Grav. 34, 045005 (2017), to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-23 Jörg Frauendiener , Jörg Hennig

Self-accelerating solutions in massive gravity provide explicit, calculable examples that exhibit the general interplay between superluminality, the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem, and strong coupling. For three particular classes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-26 Pavel Motloch , Wayne Hu , Austin Joyce , Hayato Motohashi

We consider the wave equation with a focusing cubic nonlinearity in higher odd space dimensions without symmetry restrictions on the data. We prove that there exists an open set of initial data such that the corresponding solution exists in…

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We investigate the blow-up dynamics of smooth solutions to the one-dimensional wave equation with a quadratic spatial derivative nonlinearity, motivated by its applications in Effective Field Theory (EFT) in cosmology. Despite its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Tej-eddine Ghoul , Jie Liu , Nader Masmoudi

We prove estimates for solutions of the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous wave equation on $\R^{1+n}$ in a class of Banach spaces whose norms only depend on the size of the space-time Fourier transform. The estimates are local in time,…

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We establish the full asymptotic stability of solitary waves for the focusing cubic Schr\"odinger equation on the line under small even perturbations in weighted Sobolev norms. The strategy of our proof combines a space-time resonances…

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We study the scalar, conformally invariant wave equation on a four-dimensional Minkowski background in spherical symmetry, using a fully pseudospectral numerical scheme. Thereby, our main interest is in a suitable treatment of spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Jörg Frauendiener , Jörg Hennig

For the Schr\"odinger equation with a cubic-quintic, focusing-defocusing nonlinearity in one space dimension, we prove the asymptotic stability of solitary waves for a large range of admissible frequencies. For this model, the linearized…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Yvan Martel

We study the spectral stability of solitary wave solutions to the nonlinear Dirac equation in one dimension. We focus on the Dirac equation with cubic nonlinearity, known as the Soler model in (1+1) dimensions and also as the massive…

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