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

We consider a blow-up solution for the semilinear wave equation in $N$ dimensions, with subconformal power nonlinearity. Introducing $\RR_0$ the set of non-characteristic points with the Lorentz transform of the space-independent solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Frank Merle , Hatem Zaag

We consider the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse square potential \[ i\partial_t u + \Delta u + c|x|^{-2} u = - |u|^\alpha u, \quad u(0) = u_0 \in H^1, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}^+ \times \mathbb{R}^d, \] where $d \geq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Abdelwahab Bensouilah , Van Duong Dinh , Shihui Zhu

We study singularity formation in two one-dimensional nonlinear wave models with quadratic time-derivative nonlinearities. The non-null model violates the null condition and typically develops finite-time blow-up; the null-form model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Jie Liu , Faiq Raees

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 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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 Davide Catania , Vladimir Georgiev

We consider a nonlinear wave equation with nonconstant coefficients. In particular, the coefficient in front of the second order space derivative is degenerate. We give the blow-up behavior and the regularity of the blow-up set. Partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Asma Azaiez , Hatem Zaag

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:…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-10 Yi Zhou , Wei Han

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

The paper is concerned with the problem of explosive solutions for a class of nonlinear stochastic wave equations in a domain $\mathcal{D}\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ for $d\leq3$. Under appropriate conditions on the initial data, the nonlinear…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Pao-Liu Chow

In this paper, we consider a class of the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \[ i\partial_t u + \Delta u + |x|^{-b} |u|^\alpha u = 0, \quad u(0)=u_0 \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^d), \] with $0<b<\min\{2,d\}$ and $\alpha_\star\leq…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Van Duong Dinh

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Jacek Jendrej

We study, under the radial symmetry assumption, the solutions to the fractional Schr\"odinger equations of critical nonlinearity in $\mathbb R^{1+d}, d \geq 2$, with L\'{e}vy index ${2d}/({2d-1}) < \al < 2$. We firstly prove the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Yonggeun Cho , Gyeongha Hwang , Soonsik Kwon , Sanghyuk Lee

We construct solutions $u(x,t)$ to the focusing, energy-critical, nonlinear wave equation \begin{equation} \partial_{tt}u - \Delta u - |u|^{p-1}u = 0, \quad t \geq 0, \ x \in \mathbb{R}^d, \ d \geq 3, \ p = (d+2)/(d-2) \end{equation} in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Dylan Samuelian

We consider wave maps from $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space, $d\geq3$, into rotationally symmetric manifolds which arise from small perturbations of the sphere $\mathbb S^d$. We prove the existence of co-rotational self-similar finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Roland Donninger , Birgit Schörkhuber , Alexander Wittenstein

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Masahito Ohta

We consider the semilinear wave equation with subconformal power nonlinearity in two space dimensions. We construct a finite-time blow-up solution with an isolated characteristic blow-up point at the origin, and a blow-up surface which is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-09 Frank Merle , Hatem Zaag

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Tej-Eddine Ghoul , Slim Ibrahim , Van Tien Nguyen

We consider the defocusing nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^p u=0$ in the energy-supercritical regime p>4. For even values of the power p, we show that blowup (or failure to scatter) must be accompanied by blowup of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-13 Rowan Killip , Monica Visan

This paper deals with blow-up for the complex-valued semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in dimension 1. Up to a rotation of the solution in the complex plane, we show that near a characteristic blow-up point, the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Asma Azaiez , Jacek Jendrej , Hatem Zaag