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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 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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Irfan Glogić , Sarah Kistner , Birgit Schörkhuber

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Jihoi Kim

We consider blow-up solutions of a semilinear wave equation with a loglog perturbation of the power nonlinearity in the subconformal case, and show that the blow-up rate is given by the solution of the associated ODE which has the same…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Tristan Roy , Hatem Zaag

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Ovidiu Costin , Roland Donninger , Irfan Glogić , Min Huang

We establish Strichartz estimates in similarity coordinates for the radial wave equation in three spatial dimensions with a (time-dependent) self-similar potential. As an application we consider the critical wave equation and prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Roland Donninger

We consider spherically symmetric supercritical focusing wave equations outside a ball. Using mixed analytical and numerical methods, we show that the threshold for blowup is given by a codimension-one stable manifold of the unique static…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Piotr Bizoń , Maciej Maliborski

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Kai Yang , Svetlana Roudenko , Yanxiang Zhao

We investigate the initial value problem for some energy supercritical semilinear wave equations. We establish local existence in suitable spaces with continuous flow. We also obtain some ill-posedness/weak ill-posedness results. The proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Slim Ibrahim , Mohamed Majdoub , Nader Masmoudi

We consider the blow-up of solutions for a semilinear reaction diffusion equation with exponential reaction term. It is know that certain solutions that can be continued beyond the blow-up time possess a nonconstant selfsimilar blow-up…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Aappo Pulkkinen

We consider a vector-valued blow-up solution with values in $\mathbb{R}^m$ for the semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension (this is a system of PDEs). We first characterize all the solutions of the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Asma Azaiez , Hatem Zaag

In this paper, we give a small data blow-up result for the one-dimensional semilinear wave equation with damping depending on time and space variables. We show that if the damping term can be regarded as perturbation, that is, non-effective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-21 Yuta Wakasugi

We consider in this paper blow-up solutions of the semilinear wave equation in one space dimension, with an exponential source term. Assuming that initial data are in $H^{1}_{loc}\times L^2_{loc}$ or some times in $ W^{1,\infty}\times…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Asma Azaiez , Nader Masmoudi , Hatem Zaag

We consider in this paper a large class of perturbed semilinear wave equations with critical (in the conformal transform sense) power nonlinearity. We will show that the blow-up rate of any singular solution is given by the solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-23 Mohamed-Ali Hamza

We consider the semilinear wave equation in higher dimensions with superconformal power nonlinearity. The purpose of this paper is to give a new upper bound on the blow-up rate in some space-time integral, showing a $|\log(T-t)|^q$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Mohamed Ali Hamza , Hatem Zaag

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Roland Donninger , Birgit Schörkhuber

We consider the semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We consider an arbitrary blow-up solution $u(x,t)$, the graph $x\mapsto T(x)$ of its blow-up points and ${\cal S}\subset {\mathbb R}$ the set of all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-19 F. Merle , H. Zaag

We prove a constructive stable ODE-type blowup result for open sets of solutions to a family of quasilinear wave equations in three spatial dimensions featuring a Riccati-type derivative-quadratic semilinear term. The singularity is more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Jared Speck

We study the focusing power nonlinear wave equation with any power, in Minkowski space of any spacetime dimension. We present a complete understanding of the local stability and scattering theory (both in high regularity spaces) for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Istvan Kadar , Warren Li

We construct a periodic solution to the semilinear heat equation with power nonlinearity, in one space dimension, which blows up in finite time $T$ only at one blow-up point. We also give a sharp description of its blow-up profile. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Fethi Mahmoudi , Nejla Nouaili , Hatem Zaag