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In this paper we study the parabolic evolution equation $\partial_t u=(|Du|^{2}+2|\det Du|)^{-1} \Delta u$, where $u : M\times[0,\infty) \to N$ is an evolving map between compact flat surfaces. We use a tensor maximum principle for the…

We produce a finite time blow-up solution for nonlinear fractional heat equation ($\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^{\beta/2}u=u^k$) in modulation and Fourier amalgam spaces on the torus $\mathbb T^d$ and the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d.$ This…

Long time dynamics of solutions to the 6D energy critical heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u$ on $\R^6\times(0,\infty)$ is investigated. It is shown that there exists a radially symmetric global solution $u(x,t)\in C([0,\infty);\dot…

We characterize the dynamics of the finite time blow up solutions with minimal mass for the focusing mass critical Hartree equation with $H^1(\mathbb{R}^4)$ data and $L^2(\mathbb{R}^4)$ data, where we make use of the refined…

This paper is concerned with blow-up solutions of the five dimensional energy critical heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+|u|^\frac{4}{3}u$. A goal of this paper is to show the existence of type II blowup solutions which behave as…

Let $B_1$ be the unit open disk in $\Real^2$ and $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold. In this note, we first prove the uniqueness for weak solutions of the harmonic map heat flow in $H^1([0,T]\times B_1,M)$ whose energy is non-increasing in…

The existence of co-rotational finite time blow up solutions to the wave map problem from R^{2+1} into N, where N is a surface of revolution with metric d\rho^2+g(\rho)^2 d\theta^2, g an entire function, is proven. These are of the form…

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We consider the semilinear heat equation $$ u_t-\Delta u=|u|^{p-1}u,\ \ (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}^+\times\mathbb{R}^n. $$ The well-known difficulty with this problem is that the potential well method cannot be applied directly, due to the scaling…

For the quintic, mass critical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation, for any $\nu \in (\frac{1}{2}, 1)$, we prove the existence of solutions in the energy space that blow up in finite time $T>0$ with the blow-up rate $\|\partial_x…

We study blowup solutions of the 6D energy critical heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1}u$ in $\R^n\times(0,T)$. A goal of this paper is to show the existence of type II blowup solutions predicted by Filippas, Herrero and Vel\'azquez…

For the 3d cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, which has critical (scaling) norms $L^3$ and $\dot H^{1/2}$, we first prove a result establishing sufficient conditions for global existence and sufficient conditions for finite-time…

We study stable blow-up dynamics in the $L^2$-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in various dimensions. We first investigate the profile equation and extend the result of X.-P. Wang [38] and Budd et al. [4] on the existence…

For the 2-D quasilinear wave equation $\displaystyle \sum_{i,j=0}^2g_{ij}(\nabla u)\partial_{ij}u=0$ with coefficients independent of the solution $u$, a blowup result for small data solutions has been established in [1,2] provided that the…

We consider the finite-time blow-up dynamics of solutions to the self-dual Chern-Simons-Schr\"odinger (CSS) equation (also referred to as the Jackiw-Pi model) near the radial soliton $Q$ with the least $L^{2}$-norm (ground state). While a…

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The topic of this paper is a semi-linear, energy sub-critical, defocusing wave equation $\partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = - |u|^{p -1} u$ in the 3-dimensional space ($3\leq p<5$) whose initial data are radial and come with a finite energy. In…

In this paper, we study the initial boundary value problem of the important hyperbolic Kirchhoff equation $$u_{tt}-\left(a \int_\Omega |\nabla u|^2 \dif x +b\right)\Delta u = \lambda u+ |u|^{p-1}u ,$$ where $a$, $b>0$, $p>1$, $\lambda \in…

We perform a molecular dynamical study of the isolated $d=1$ classical Hamiltonian ${\cal H} = {1/2} \sum_{i=1}^N L_i^2 + \sum_{i \ne j} \frac{1-cos(\theta_i-\theta_j)}{r_{ij}^\alpha} ;(\alpha \ge 0)$, known to exhibit a second order phase…