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For the critical focusing wave equation \Box u = u^5 on R^{3+1} in the radial case, we prove the existence of type II blow up solutions with scaling parameter \lambda(t) = t^{-1-\nu} for all \nu >0. This extends the previous work by the…
We construct blow-up solutions of the energy critical wave map equation on $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}\to \mathcal N$ with polynomial blow-up rate ($t^{-1-\nu}$ for blow-up at $t=0$) in the case when $\mathcal{N}$ is a surface of revolution. Here we…
We consider the wave maps problem with domain $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ and target $\mathbb{S}^{2}$ in the 1-equivariant, topological degree one setting. In this setting, we recall that the soliton is a harmonic map from $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ to…
We prove the existence of equivariant finite time blow up solutions for the wave map problem from 2+1 dimensions into the 2-sphere. These solutions are the sum of a dynamically rescaled ground-state harmonic map plus a radiation term. The…
We consider the energy supercritical wave maps from $\mathbb{R}^d$ into the $d$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ with $d \geq 7$. Under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear wave…
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…
We construct a one parameter family of finite time blow ups to the co-rotational wave maps problem from $S^2\times \RR$ to $S^2,$ parameterized by $\nu\in(1/2,1].$ The longitudinal function $u(t,\alpha)$ which is the main object of study…
For the Schr\"odinger map problem from 2+1 dimensions into the 2-sphere we prove the existence of equivariant finite time blow up solutions that are close to a dynamically rescaled lowest energy harmonic map, the scaling parameter being…
We show that the energy critical Wave Maps equation from $\mathbb{R}^{2+1}$ to $\mathbb{S}^2$ and restricted to the co-rotational setting with co-rotation index $k = 2$ admits finite time blow up solutions of finite energy on $(0,…
We extend the slow blow up solutions of Krieger, Schlag, and Tataru to semilinear wave equations on a curved background. In particular, for a class of manifolds $(M,g)$ we show the existence of a family of blow-up solutions with finite…
We consider the semilinear wave equation with focusing energy-critical nonlinearity in space dimension 5 with radial data. It is known that a solution $(u, \partial_t u)$ which blows up at $t = 0$ in a neighborhood (in the energy norm) of…
We show that the finite time blow up solutions for the co-rotational Wave Maps problem constructed in [7,15] are stable under suitably small perturbations within the co-rotational class, provided the scaling parameter $\lambda(t) =…
We consider the wave maps from $\mathbb{R}^{1+2}$ into $\mathbb{S}^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3.$ Under an additional assumption of $k$-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear wave equation: \begin{equation*}…
We consider the energy-supercritical harmonic map heat flow from $\mathbb{R}^d$ into $\mathbb{S}^d$, under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry. We are interested by the 7 dimensional case which is the borderline between the…
We show that the finite time type II blow up solutions for the energy critical nonlinear wave equation \[ \Box u = -u^5 \] on $\R^{3+1}$ constructed in earlier work by Krieger-Schlag-Tataru are stable along a co-dimension three manifold of…
We exhibit $\mathcal C^{\infty}$ type II blow up solutions to the focusing energy critical wave equation in dimension $N=4$. These solutions admit near blow up time a decomposiiton $u(t,x)=1/l(t)(Q+e(t))(x/l(t)}}$ with $|e(t),\pa_t…
We consider 1-equivariant wave maps from 1+2 dimensions to the 2-sphere of finite energy. We establish a classification of all degree 1 global solutions whose energies are less than three times the energy of the harmonic map Q. In…
We consider the 1-equivariant energy critical wave maps problem with two-sphere target. Using a method based on matched asymptotic expansions, we construct infinite time relaxation, blow-up, and intermediate types of solutions that have…
We consider the focusing energy-critical wave equation in space dimension $N\in \{3, 4, 5\}$ for radial data. We study type II blow-up solutions which concentrate one bubble of energy. It is known that such solutions decompose in the energy…
In this paper we introduce the channel of energy argument to the study of energy critical wave maps into the sphere. More precisely, we prove a channel of energy type inequality for small energy wave maps, and as an application we show that…