Seminar

Language English
From 2010/11/16 15:30
To 2010/11/16 17:30
PlaceRoom 552, Building No.3, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
Seminar NameNLPDE Seminar
Title Transversality of stable and Nehari manifolds for a semilinear heat equation  
Field Analysis
SpeakersNoriko Mizoguchi
AffiliationTokyo Gakugei University
NoteIt is well known that for the subcritical semilinear heat equation,
negative initial energy is a sufficient condition for finite time blowup of the solution.
We show that this is no longer true when the energy functional is replaced with the Nehari functional,
thus answering negatively a question left open by Gazzola and Weth (2005).
Our proof proceeds by showing that the local stable manifold of any non-zero steady state solution
intersects the Nehari manifold transversally.
As a consequence, there exist solutions converging to any given steady state,
with initial Nehari energy either negative or positive. (This is a joint work with F. Dickstein, Ph. Souplet and F. Weissler.)