Co-dimension one stable blowup for the supercritical cubic wave equation

Irfan Glogić, Birgit Schörkhuber

Published 2018-10-17Version 1

For the focusing cubic wave equation, we find an explicit, non-trivial self-similar blowup solution $u^*_T$, which is defined on the whole space and exists in all supercritical dimensions $d \geq 5$. For $d=7$, we analyze its stability properties without any symmetry assumptions and prove the existence of a co-dimension one Lipschitz manifold consisting of initial data whose solutions blowup in finite time and converge asymptotically to $u^*_T$ (modulo space-time shifts and Lorentz boosts) in the backward lightcone of the blowup point. The underlying topology is strictly above scaling.