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We study the semilinear wave equation \[ \partial_t^2 \psi-\Delta \psi=|\psi|^{p-1}\psi \] for $p > 3$ with radial data in three spatial dimensions. There exists an explicit solution which blows up at $t=T>0$ given by \[ \psi^T(t,x)=c_p…

We analyse the energy supercritical semilinear wave equation $$\Phi_{tt}-\Delta\Phi-|\Phi|^{p-1}\Phi=0$$ in $\mathbb R^d$ space. We first prove in a suitable regime of parameters the existence of a countable family of self similar profiles…

We prove nonlinear stability of the fundamental self--similar solution of the wave equation with a focusing power nonlinearity $\psi_{tt}-\Delta \psi=\psi^p$ for $p=3,5,7,...$ in the radial case. The proof is based on a semigroup…

We consider the energy super critical semilinear heat equation $$\partial_t u=\Delta u+u^{p}, \ \ x\in \mathbb R^3, \ \ p>5.$$ We first revisit the construction of radially symmetric backward self similar solutions and propose a bifurcation…

We consider the semilinear heat equation \begin{eqnarray*} \partial_t u = \Delta u + |u|^{p-1} u \ln ^{\alpha}( u^2 +2), \end{eqnarray*} in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $p > 1$ and $ \alpha \in \mathbb{R}$. Unlike the standard case…

We consider the energy super critical 4 dimensional semilinear heat equation $$\partial_tu=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u, \ \ x\in \Bbb R^4, \ \ p>5.$$ Let $\Phi(r)$ be a three dimensional radial self similar solution for the three supercritical…

Consider the focusing semilinear wave equation in R^3 with energy-critical nonlinearity \partial_t^2 \psi - \Delta \psi - \psi^5 = 0, \psi(0) = \psi_0, \partial_t \psi(0) = \psi_1. This equation admits stationary solutions of the form…

We consider an explicit self-similar solution to an energy-supercritical Yang-Mills equation and prove its mode stability. Based on earlier work by one of the authors, we obtain a fully rigorous proof of the nonlinear stability of the…

We consider the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations $i\partial_t u+\Delta u +u|u|^{p-1}=0$ in dimension $1\leq N\leq 5$ and for slightly $L^2$ supercritical nonlinearities $p_c<p<(1+\e)p_c$ with $p_c=1+\frac{4}{N}$ and $0<\e\ll 1$.…

We study the stability of an explicitly known, non-trivial self-similar blowup solution of the quadratic wave equation in the lowest energy supercritical dimension $d = 7$. This solution blows up at a single point and extends naturally away…

We consider the focusing energy subcritical nonlinear wave equation $\partial_{tt} u - \Delta u= |u|^{p-1} u$ in ${\mathbb R}^N$, $N\ge 1$. Given any compact set $ E \subset {\mathbb R}^N $, we construct finite energy solutions which blow…

In this paper we consider the slightly $L^2$-supercritical gKdV equations $\partial_t u+(u_{xx}+u|u|^{p-1})_x=0$, with the nonlinearity $5<p<5+\varepsilon$ and $0<\varepsilon\ll 1$ . We will prove the existence and stability of a blow-up…

We consider semilinear wave equations with focusing power nonlinearities in odd space dimensions $d \geq 5$. We prove that for every $p > \frac{d+3}{d-1}$ there exists an open set of radial initial data in $H^{\frac{d+1}{2}} \times…

We consider the nonlinear heat equation with a nonlinear gradient term: $\partial_t u =\Delta u+\mu|\nabla u|^q+|u|^{p-1}u,\; \mu>0,\; q=2p/(p+1),\; p>3,\; t\in (0,T),\; x\in \R^N.$ We construct a solution which blows up in finite time…

We consider the wave equation with focusing power nonlinearity. The associated ODE in time gives rise to a self-similar solution known as the ODE blowup. We prove the nonlinear asymptotic stability of this blowup mechanism outside of radial…

In this paper we consider the semi-linear wave equation: $u_{tt}-\Delta u=u_t|u_t|^{p-1}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$. We provide an associated energy. With this energy we give the blow-up rate for blowing up solutions in the case of bounded below…

We study the focusing semilinear heat equation with an additional defocusing H\'enon-type nonlinearity, the coupling of which is measured by a constant $c >0$. For $c \in (0,c^*)$, the model admits a closed-form self-similar blowup solution…

We study the fully nonlocal semilinear equation $\partial_t^\alpha u+(-\Delta)^\beta u=|u|^{p-1}u$, $p\ge1$, where $\partial_t^\alpha$ stands for the Caputo derivative of order $\alpha\in (0,1)$ and $(-\Delta)^\beta$, $\beta\in(0,1]$, is…

We prove the existence of energy solutions of the energy critical focusing wave equation in R^3 which blow up exactly at x=t=0. They decompose into a bulk term plus radiation term. The bulk is a rescaled version of the stationary "soliton"…

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…