On Fila-King Conjecture in Dimension Four

Abstract

We consider the following Cauchy problem for the four-dimensional energy critical heat equation \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t=Δu+u^{3} ~&\mbox{ in }~ {\mathbb R}^4 \times (0,\infty),\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x) ~&\mbox{ in }~ {\mathbb R}^4. \end{cases} \end{equation*} We construct a positive infinite time blow-up solution $u(x,t)$ with the blow-up rate $\Vert u(\cdot ,t){\Vert }_{L^{\infty }({\mathbb{R}}^4)}\sim \ln t$ as $t\to \infty$ and show the stability of the infinite time blow-up. This gives a rigorous proof of a conjecture by Fila and King \cite[Conjecture 1.1]{filaking12}.

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