Universality of the blow-up profile for small type II blow-up solutions of the energy-critical wave equation: the nonradial case

  • Thomas Duyckaerts

    Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13, Villetaneuse, France
  • Carlos E. Kenig

    University of Chicago, USA
  • Frank Merle

    Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Abstract

Following our previous paper in the radial case, we consider type II blow-up solutions to the energy-critical focusing wave equation. Let W be the unique radial positive stationary solution of the equation. Up to the symmetries of the equation, under an appropriate smallness assumption, any type II blow-up solution is asymptotically a regular solution plus a rescaled Lorentz transform of concentrating at the origin.

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Thomas Duyckaerts, Carlos E. Kenig, Frank Merle, Universality of the blow-up profile for small type II blow-up solutions of the energy-critical wave equation: the nonradial case. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 14 (2012), no. 5, pp. 1389–1454

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/336