%0 Journal Article
%T Stable self-similar blowup in energy supercritical Yang-Mills theory
%A Roland Donninger
%J Mathematics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X We consider the Cauchy problem for an energy supercritical nonlinear wave equation that arises in $(1+5)$--dimensional Yang--Mills theory. A certain self--similar solution $W_0$ of this model is conjectured to act as an attractor for generic large data evolutions. Assuming mode stability of $W_0$, we prove a weak version of this conjecture, namely that the self--similar solution $W_0$ is (nonlinearly) stable. Phrased differently, we prove that mode stability of $W_0$ implies its nonlinear stability. The fact that this statement is not vacuous follows from careful numerical work by Bizo\'n and Chmaj that verifies the mode stability of $W_0$ beyond reasonable doubt.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1389v1