$L^2$-based stability of blowup with log correction for semilinear heat equation

Thomas Y. Hou, Van Tien Nguyen, Yixuan Wang

Published 2024-04-15Version 1

We propose an alternative proof of the classical result of type-I blowup with log correction for the semilinear equation. Compared with previous proofs, we use a novel idea of enforcing stable normalizations for perturbation around the approximate profile and establish a weighted $H^k$ stability, thereby avoiding the use of a topological argument and the analysis of a linearized spectrum. Therefore, this approach can be adopted even if we only have a numerical profile and do not have explicit information on the spectrum of its linearized operator. This result generalizes the $L^2$-based stability argument to blowups that are not exactly self-similar and can be adapted to higher dimensions. Numerical results corroborate the effectiveness of our normalization, even in the large perturbation regime beyond our theoretical setting.