Self-similar solutions of the cubic wave equation

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/23/2/002MaRDI QIDQ3408261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Bizoń, P. Breitenlohner, D. Maison, Arthur G. Wasserman

Publication date 25 February 2010

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.3834

zbMATH Keywords

three spatial dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Self-similar solutions to PDEs (35C06) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

Abstract: We prove that the focusing cubic wave equation in three spatial dimensions has a countable family of self-similar solutions which are smooth inside the past light cone of the singularity. These solutions are labeled by an integer index $n$ which counts the number of oscillations of the solution. The linearized operator around the $n$-th solution is shown to have $n+1$ negative eigenvalues (one of which corresponds to the gauge mode) which implies that all $n>0$ solutions are unstable. It is also shown that all $n>0$ solutions have a singularity outside the past light cone which casts doubt on whether these solutions may participate in the Cauchy evolution, even for non-generic initial data.

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