Convergence of a blow-up curve for a semilinear wave equation

Blow up for the Semilinear Wave Equation in Schwarzschild Metric

We study the semilinear wave equation in Schwarzschild metric (3 + 1 dimensional space time). First, we establish that the problem is locally well posed in H for any σ > 1; then we prove the blow up of the solution for every p > 1 and non negative initial data. The work is dedicated to prof. Yvonne Choquet Bruhat in occasion of her 80th year.

Existence and classification of characteristic points at blow-up for a semilinear wave equation

We consider the semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We first show the existence of a blow-up solution with a characteristic point. Then, we consider an arbitrary blow-up solution u(x, t), the graph x 7→ T (x) of its blow-up points and S ⊂ R the set of all characteristic points and show that S has an empty interior. Finally, given x0 ∈ S, we show that in self...

Initial blow-up solution of a semilinear heat equation

We study the existence and uniqueness of a maximal solution of equation ut − ∆u + f(u) = 0 in Ω× (0,∞), where Ω is a domain with a non-empty compact boundary, which satisfies u = g on ∂Ω × (0,∞), assuming that g and f are given continuous functions and f is also convex, nondecreasing, f(0) = 0 and verifies Keller-Osserman condition. We show that if the boundary of Ω satisfies the parabolic Wien...

Interior Gradient Blow-up in a Semilinear Parabolic Equation

We present a one dimensional semilinear parabolic equation for which the spatial derivative of solutions becomes unbounded in finite time while the solutions themselves remain bounded. In our example the derivative blows up in the interior of the space interval rather than at the boundary, as in earlier examples. In the case of monotone solutions we show that gradient blow-up occurs at a single...

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