arXiv · 2604.19389
Stable blowup profile for a semilinear heat equation with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearity
Abstract
We study the focusing semilinear heat equation with an additional defocusing H\'enon-type nonlinearity, the coupling of which is measured by a constant $c >0$. For $c \in (0,c^*)$, the model admits a closed-form self-similar blowup solution in every space dimension $d \geq 1$. Restricting ourselves to the three-dimensional case, we study the stability of this solution under small non-radial perturbations. By working in intersection Sobolev spaces with additional angular regularity, we prove finite co-dimension stability for all admissible values of $c$. Furthermore, we analyze the spectrum of the underlying linearized operator and we prove stable blowup for the cubic-quintic case and $c$ sufficiently close to $c^*$. Finally, we discuss the situation for small values of $c$ and use a modified version of the classical GGMT criterion to give an upper bound on the number of unstable eigenvalues.
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Irfan Glogić, Sarah Kistner, Birgit Schörkhuber. 2026-04-21. Stable blowup profile for a semilinear heat equation with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2026.114710
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