Blowup solutions to the semilinear wave equation with a stylized pyramid as a blowup surface

DOI10.1002/CPA.21756zbMATH Open1402.35181arXiv1610.05637OpenAlexW2962924441WikidataQ129794383 ScholiaQ129794383MaRDI QIDQ4583642FDOQ4583642

Authors: H. Zaag, Frank Merle 

Publication date: 31 August 2018

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the semilinear wave equation with subconformal power nonlinearity in two space dimensions. We construct a finite-time blow-up solution with an isolated characteristic blow-up point at the origin, and a blow-up surface which is centered at the origin and has the shape of a stylized pyramid, whose edges follow the bisectrices of the axes in $R^2$. The blow-up surface is differentiable outside the bisecrtices. As for the asymptotic behavior in similariy variables, the solution converges to the classical one-dimensional soliton outside the bisectrices. On the bisectrices outside the origin, it converges (up to a subsequence) to a genuinely two-dimensional stationary solution, whose existence is a by-product of the proof. At the origin, it behaves like the sum of 4 solitons localized on the two axes, with opposite signs for neighbors. This is the first example of a blow-up solution with a characteristic point in higher dimensions, showing a really two-dimensional behavior. Moreover, the points of the bisectrices outside the origin give us the first example of non-characteristic points where the blow-up surface is non-differentiable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05637

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zbMATH Keywords

two space dimensionssubconformal power nonlinearityisolated characteristic blowup point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Second-order semilinear hyperbolic equations (35L71)

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