Construction of type II blowup solutions for the 1-corotational energy supercritical wave maps

Abstract

We consider the energy supercritical wave maps from $\mathbb{R}^d$ into the $d$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ with $d \geq 7$. Under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear wave equation $$\partial_t^2 u = \partial^2_r u + \frac{(d-1)}{r}\partial_r u - \frac{(d-1)}{2r^2}\sin(2u).$$ We construct for this equation a family of $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ solutions which blow up in finite time via concentration of the universal profile $$u(r,t) \sim Q\left(\frac{r}{\lambda(t)}\right),$$ where $Q$ is the stationary solution of the equation and the speed is given by the quantized rates $$\lambda(t) \sim c_u(T-t)^\frac{\ell}{\gamma}, \quad \ell \in \mathbb{N}^*, \;\; \ell > \gamma = \gamma(d) \in (1,2].$$ The construction relies on two arguments: the reduction of the problem to a finite-dimensional one thanks to a robust universal energy method and modulation techniques developed by Merle, Rapha\"el and Rodnianski for the energy supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, then we proceed by contradiction to solve the finite-dimensional problem and conclude using the Brouwer fixed point theorem.