Exotic blowup solutions for the \(u^5\) focusing wave equation in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\) (Q464660): Difference between revisions

For the energy critical focusing wave equation \(u_{tt}-\Delta u=u^5\) on \(\mathbb{R}^{3+1}\) in the radial case, the authors construct a family of blowup solutions that are obtained from the stationary solutions \(W(r)=(1+r^2/3)^{-1/2}\) by means of a dynamical rescaling \(\lambda(t)^{1/2}W(\lambda(t) r)+\text{correction}\) with \(\lambda(t)\rightarrow \infty\) as \(t\rightarrow 0\). The reason that it is called energy critical and focusing is simply from the fact that it admits a formal conservation of energy \(\int_{\mathbb{R}^3} |u_t|^2+|\nabla u|^2-\frac{1}{3} |u|^{6} dx=c\) (noticing the minus sign) and we have the Sobolev embedding \(\dot H^1\subset L^{6}\). The novelty here lies with the scaling law \(\lambda(t)\) that eternally oscillates between various pure-power laws. Here, for the blowup point \(r=t=0\), the scaling law \(\lambda(t)\) is of the form \(t^{-1-\nu}\exp(-\epsilon_0 \sin (\log t))\) for \(0<t<1/2\), \(\nu>3\) and small \(\epsilon_0\).