# Threshold for blowup for the supercritical cubic wave equation

@article{Glogic2019ThresholdFB,
title={Threshold for blowup for the supercritical cubic wave equation},
author={Irfan Glogic and Maciej Maliborski and Birgit Sch{\"o}rkhuber},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2019},
volume={abs/1905.13739}
}
• Published 31 May 2019
• Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics
• ArXiv
In this paper, we discuss singularity formation for the fo- cusing cubic wave equation in the energy supercritical regime. For this equation an explicit nontrivial self-similar blowup solution was recently found by the first and third author in [27]. In the seven dimensional case it was proven to be stable along a co-dimension one manifold of initial data. Here, we provide numerical evidence that this solution is in fact a critical solution at the threshold between finite-time blowup and…
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