Construction of type II blow-up solutions for the energy-critical wave equation in dimension 5

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Abstract

We consider the semilinear wave equation with focusing energy-critical nonlinearity in space dimension N=5 ∂ttu=Δu+|u|4/3u with radial data. It is known [7] that a solution (u,∂tu) which blows up at t=0 in a neighborhood (in the energy norm) of the family of solitons Wλ, decomposes in the energy space as (u(t),∂tu(t))=(Wλ(t)+u0 ,u1 )+o(1) where limt→0⁡λ(t)/t=0 and (u0 ,u1 )∈H˙1×L2. We construct a blow-up solution of this type such that the asymptotic profile (u0 ,u1 ) is any pair of sufficiently regular functions with u0 (0)>0. For these solutions the concentration rate is λ(t)∼t4. We also provide examples of solutions with concentration rate λ(t)∼tν+1 for ν>8, related to the behavior of the asymptotic profile near the origin.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)866
Number of pages1
JournalJournal of Functional Analysis
Volume272
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Blow-up
  • Critical nonlinearity
  • Soliton

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