Blow-up profile for the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (Q952495)

This paper deals with the study of the Ginzburg-Landau equation \[ u_t=(1+i\beta )\Delta u+(1+i\delta )| u| ^{p-1}u-\gamma u, \quad u(\cdot ,0)\in L^\infty ({\mathbb R}^N,{\mathbb C}), \] where \(p>1\) and the constants \(\beta\), \(\delta\) and \(\gamma\) are real. The authors construct a solution \(u(x,t)\) that blows up in some finite time \(T\), in the sense that \(\lim_{t\rightarrow T}\| u(t)\| _{L^\infty}=+\infty\). This blow-up solution is obtained provided \(p-\delta^2-\beta\delta (p+1)>0\). The second important result establishes the stability of this solution with respect to perturbations in the initial data. The proofs combine related elliptic estimates with a careful spectral analysis of the associated linearized operator.