Stable blowup for the supercritical Yang-Mills heat flow

DOI10.4310/JDG/1567216954zbMATH Open1428.58012arXiv1604.07737OpenAlexW2970439123WikidataQ115165188 ScholiaQ115165188MaRDI QIDQ2323910FDOQ2323910

Authors: Roland Donninger, Birgit Schörkhuber 

Publication date: 13 September 2019

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the heat flow for Yang-Mills connections on $mathbb{R}^{5}imesSO(5)$. In the $SO(5)-$equivariant setting, the Yang-Mills heat equation reduces to a single semilinear reaction-diffusion equation for which an explicit self-similar blowup solution was found by Weinkove cite{Wei04}. We prove the nonlinear asymptotic stability of this solution under small perturbations. In particular, we show that there exists an open set of initial conditions in a suitable topology such that the corresponding solutions blow up in finite time and converge to a non-trivial self-similar blowup profile on an unbounded domain. Convergence is obtained in suitable Sobolev norms and in $L^{infty}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07737

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral analysisrepresentationsHardy's inequalityreductionresolvent estimatesuniform boundsperturbed problemunstable behaviorsimilarity coordinatesstable self-similar blowupequivariant Yang-Mills connectionsestimates for the non-linearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)

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