Scattering and stability for ODE-type blow-up surfaces for focusing nonlinear wave equations

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Authors: István Kádár, Warren Li
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Abstract

We study the focusing power nonlinear wave equation with any power, in Minkowski space of any spacetime dimension. We present a complete understanding of the local stability and scattering theory (both in high regularity spaces) for solutions exhibiting ODE type blow-up on spacelike hypersurfaces, with the blow-up at each point modelled by the explicit solution $ϕ_{\mathrm{model}} = c_p t^{-α_p}$. Given a sufficiently regular spacelike hypersurface $Σ_f$, together with auxiliary scattering data $ψ$, we construct the unique corresponding solution to the nonlinear wave equation that (locally) forms an ODE type singularity on $Σ_f$ attaining $ψ$ as scattering data. Conversely, we show that such ODE type singularities are (locally) stable to suitably regular perturbations away from the singularity, and that the blow-up surface and scattering data remain regular, in a continuously dependent manner, following such perturbations.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
2 February 2026
Document type
Preprint