Existence and universality of the blow-up profile for the semilinear wave equation in one space dimension

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-121

  Merle, Frank ^a,b   Zaag, Hatem ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

^b CNRS/IHES   (France)

^c ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Blow up profile; Modulation theory; Wave equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448974487     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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