Mathematics – Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
2010-03-03
Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 64 (2011), no. 8, 1029-1164
Mathematics
Analysis of PDEs
Some minor changes according to the referee's suggestions, to appear in Comm. Pure Appl. Math
Scientific paper
We consider co--rotational wave maps from (3+1) Minkowski space into the three--sphere. This is an energy supercritical model which is known to exhibit finite time blow up via self-similar solutions. The ground state self--similar solution $f_0$ is known in closed form and based on numerics, it is supposed to describe the generic blow up behavior of the system. We prove that the blow up via $f_0$ is stable under the assumption that $f_0$ does not have unstable modes. This condition is equivalent to a spectral assumption for a linear second order ordinary differential operator. In other words, we reduce the problem of stable blow up to a linear ODE spectral problem. Although we are unable, at the moment, to verify the mode stability of $f_0$ rigorously, it is known that possible unstable eigenvalues are confined to a certain compact region in the complex plane. As a consequence, highly reliable numerical techniques can be applied and all available results strongly suggest the nonexistence of unstable modes, i.e., the assumed mode stability of $f_0$.
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