Finite point blowup for the critical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation

Past seminar

Speaker: Didier Pilod
University of Bergen, Norway

Date: April 5, 2022 at 12 Santiago time

Abstract: In the last twenty years, there have been significant advances in the study of the blow-up phenomenon for the critical generalized Korteweg-de~Vries (gKdV) equation, including the determination of sufficient conditions for blowup,the stability of blowup in a refined topology and the classification of minimal mass blowup. Exotic blow-up solutions with a continuum of blow-up rates and multi-point blow-up solutions were also constructed. However, all these results, as well as numerical simulations, involve the bubbling of a solitary wave going at infinity at the blow-up time, which means that the blow-up dynamics and the residue are eventually uncoupled. Even at the formal level, there was no indication whether blowup at a finite point could occur for this equation.

After reviewing the theory of blow-up for the critical gKdV equation in the first part of the talk, we will answer this question by constructing solutions that blow up in finite time under the form of a single-bubble concentrating the ground state at a finite point with an unforeseen blow-up rate.
Finding a blow-up rate intermediate between the self-similar rate and other rates previously known also reopens the question of which blow-up rates are actually possible for this equation.

This talk is based on a joint work with Yvan Martel (École Polytechnique/France).

Venue: Online via Zoom / Sala de seminarios DIM, Beauchef 851, piso 5
Chair: Claudio Muñoz

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