Related papers: On blowup in supercritical wave equations
We consider the blow-up behavior of solutions to the semilinear wave equation $$ \partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = |u|^{p-1}u \ln^a(u^2+2), \ (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n \times [0,T),$$ in the conformal case $ p = p_c = 1 + \frac{4}{n-1}$. Previous…
We prove that solutions to the critical wave equation below can not be global if the initial values are positive somewhere and nonnegative. This completes the solution to the famous blow up conjecture about critical semilinear wave…
In this paper, we study a semilinear weakly coupled system of wave equations with power nonlinearities. More precisely, we couple (through the nonlinear terms) a wave equation and a damped wave equation with a time-dependent coefficient for…
We study the semilinear wave equation in Schwarzschild metric (3+1 dimensional space--time). First, we establish that the problem is locally well--posed in $\cs H^\sigma$ for any $\sigma \geq 1$; then we prove the blow up of the solution…
We construct a solution to a complex nonlinear heat equation 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 proof relies on the reduction of the problem to a finite…
This paper is devoted to studying the following two initial-boundary value problems for semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients on exterior domain with subcritical exponent in $n$ space dimensions:…
We consider the energy supercritical harmonic heat flow 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…
We consider the six dimensional energy-critical semilinear heat equation with self-similarly decaying initial data. Our main result shows the existence of sign-changing solutions that exhibit infinite-time blow-up and nonnegative solutions…
We study the instability of standing wave solutions for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with a one-dimensional harmonic potential in dimension $N\ge 2$. We prove that if the nonlinearity is $L^2$-critical or supercritical in dimension…
In this paper we study dynamical properties of blowup solutions to the focusing mass-critical nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equation. We establish a profile decomposition and a compactness lemma related to the equation. As a result, we…
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…
We consider the semilinear heat equation $u_t=\Delta u+|u|^{p-1} u$ in possibly non-convex and unbounded domains. Our main result shows the nonexistence of type II blow-up for possibly sign-changing solutions in the energy subcritical range…
We study the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the $L^2$-supercritical regime with finite energy and finite variance initial data. We investigate solutions above the energy (or mass-energy) threshold. In our first result, we…
We consider the focusing mass-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and prove that blowup solutions to this equation with initial data in $H^s(\R^d)$, $s > s_0(d)$ and $d\geq 3$, concentrate at least the mass of the ground state at the…
In this article, we investigate the blow-up behavior of solutions to the one-dimensional damped nonlinear wave equation, namely $$ \partial_t^2 u - \partial_x^2 u + \frac{\mu}{1 + t} \partial_t u = |\partial_t u|^p \quad (p > 1). $$ Under…
We study the blow-up problem of one-dimensional nonlinear heat equations. Our result shows that for a certain class of initial conditions, the solutions blow up in finite time and we characterize the asymptotic dynamics of these solutions.…
We describe the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions $u_\epsilon$ of the equation $-\Delta u + au = 3\,u^{5-\epsilon}$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The function $a$ is assumed to be…
We consider the energy super critical $d+1$ dimensional semilinear heat equation $$\partial_tu=\Delta u+u^{p}, \ \ x\in \Bbb R^{d+1}, \ \ p\geq 3, \ d\geq 14.$$ A fundamental open problem on this canonical nonlinear model is to understand…
We characterize the asymptotic behavior near blowup points for positive solutions of the semilinear heat equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t u-\Delta u =f(u), \end{equation*} for nonlinearities which are genuinely non scale invariant,…
A nonlinear profile decomposition is established for solutions of supercritical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations. As a consequence, we obtain a concentration result for finite time blow-up solutions that are of Type II.