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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 consider the semilinear wave equation $$\partial_t^2 u -\Delta u =f(u), \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb R^N\times [0,T),\qquad (1)$$ with $f(u)=|u|^{p-1}u\log^a (2+u^2)$, where $p>1$ and $a\in \mathbb R$, with subconformal power nonlinearity. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Mohamed Ali Hamza , Hatem Zaag

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…

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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 study singularity formation for the focusing quadratic wave equation in the energy supercritical case, i.e., for $d \geq 7$. We find in closed form a new, non-trivial, radial, self-similar blowup solution $u^*$ which exists for all $d…

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We consider the semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We first show the existence of a blow-up solution with a characteristic point. Then, we consider an arbitrary blow-up solution $u(x,t)$, the graph…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-25 F. Merle , H. Zaag

In this paper we report on numerical studies of formation of singularities for the semilinear wave equations with a focusing power nonlinearity $u_{tt} - \Delta u = u^{p}$ in three space dimensions. We show that for generic large initial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-07 Piotr Bizoń , Tadeusz Chmaj , Zbislaw Tabor

This paper is concerned with strong blow-up instability (Definition 1.3) for standing wave solutions to the system of the quadratic nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations. In the single case, namely the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with power…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Hayato Miyazaki

We establish Strichartz estimates for the radial energy-critical wave equation in 5 dimensions in similarity coordinates. Using these, we prove the nonlinear asymptotic stability of the ODE blowup in the energy space.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Roland Donninger , Ziping Rao

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 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…

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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

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

The focusing cubic wave equation in three spatial dimensions has the explicit solution $\sqrt{2}/t$. We study the stability of the blowup described by this solution as $t \to 0$ without symmetry restrictions on the data. Via the conformal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Annegret Y. Burtscher , Roland Donninger

In this note, we investigate the stability of self-similar blow-up solutions for superconformal semilinear wave equations in all dimensions. A central aspect of our analysis is the spectral equivalence of the linearized operators under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Jie Liu

We consider the blow-up of solutions to the following parameterized nonlinear wave equation: $ u_{tt} = c(u)^{2} u_{xx} + \lambda c(u)c'(u)( u_x)^2$ with the real parameter $\lambda$. In previous works, it was reported that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Yuusuke Sugiyama

We prove there exist solutions to the focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in three dimensions that blowup on a circle, in the sense of L^2 concentration on a ring, bounded H^1 norm outside any surrounding toroid, and growth of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Ian Zwiers

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for an energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation in odd space dimensions that arises in equivariant Yang-Mills theory. In each dimension, there is a self-similar finite-time blowup solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Roland Donninger , Matthias Ostermann

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…

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