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

DOI10.1002/CPA.21756MaRDI QIDQ4583642zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors H. Zaag, Frank Merle

Publication date 31 August 2018

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

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

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)

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.

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