Stable blowup for the supercritical hyperbolic Yang-Mills equations

Abstract

We consider the Yang-Mills equations in (1+d)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. It is known that in the supercritical case, i.e., for d≥5, these equations admit closed form equivariant self-similar blowup solutions [2]. These solutions are furthermore conjectured to be the universal attractors for generic large equivariant data evolutions. In this paper we partially prove this conjecture. Namely, we show that for all odd d≥5 the blowup mechanism exhibited by these solutions is stable.