Instability of steady states for nonlinear wave and heat equations

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2007.06.006zbMATH Open1130.35015arXivmath/0611559OpenAlexW1969430382MaRDI QIDQ2383034FDOQ2383034

Paschalis Karageorgis, Walter A. Strauss

Publication date: 5 October 2007

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

Abstract: We consider time-independent solutions of hyperbolic equations such as $d_{tt}u-Deltau=f(x,u)$ where $f$ is convex in $u$. We prove that linear instability with a positive eigenfunction implies nonlinear instability. In some cases the instability occurs as a blow up in finite time. We prove the same result for parabolic equations such as $d_{t}u-Deltau=f(x,u)$. Then we treat several examples under very sharp conditions, including equations with potential terms and equations with supercritical nonlinearities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611559

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zbMATH Keywords

Cauchy problemnonlinear sourceinstabilitynonlinear heat equationnonlinear wave equationsupercritical nonlinearity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

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