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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…
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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…